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(Oxford University) Alternative form of noughth week. [(Oxford University) The week before the first week of an academic term, when many undergraduates arrive from home.]
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Obsolete form of anniversary. [A day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since a given significant event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years.]
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Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual.
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A year that includes a multitude of significant and fateful events, be they disasters or successes.
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(idiomatic) Thirteen; a group of thirteen.
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a year chosen for comparison with other years, in statistical analysis and various indices, such as a price index. It usually has an arbitrary value of 100 to make percentage comparisons easier. A new base year can be chosen as the years progress.
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A three-month unit of television broadcasting, corresponding to one of the four seasons.
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day, in two-digit, numeric format, as in dd/mm/yyyy
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In a college or university, the week immediately preceding finals week.
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(as plural only, always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.
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On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass
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(film) The two periods of the year, often described as January and February and mid-August through September, when new movie releases are either poor-quality, cheaply made, or intended for niche audiences, since low movie attendance limits the potential box office return.
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(informal, humorous, neologism) A period of six months
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The first half of a financial year.
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The second half of a calendar year (July to December).
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Alternative form of half birthday [The day halfway in between two consecutive birthdays.]
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A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
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(UK) Alternative form of half term. [(UK) A short school holiday in the middle of the term.]
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(loosely) A fortnight, a period of time equal to two weeks; fourteen days.
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Alternative form of half-year [The period of time equal to half a year; normally referred to as 6 months, but a half-year is more exactly 182.5 days (without a leap day)]
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A unit of age relative to the species being considered, defined such that an animal's age in "human years" is the equivalent age of a human being in calendar years.
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Alternative form of intercalary [Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)]
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Alternative form of intercalary [Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)]
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(US, education) January term: a period in January where students and faculty can take part in learning and other activities outside of the formal academic terms.
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(finance) A hypothetical seasonal anomaly in the financial market where securities' prices increase in the month of January more than in any other month.
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One person's working time for a month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
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(education) A very short semester or term offered at some colleges that lasts at least a portion of the month of May, and sometimes also June.
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(rare) A day that marks an exact month (or specified number of months) since the occurrence of a significant event.
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(rare) Of or pertaining to a month.
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Used alone, after a verb or preposition of location, without "the".
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Happening in the middle of December.
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Occurring in the middle of a month, neither at the beginning nor the end
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A break (frequently, week-long) in classes taking place somewhere between the end of the first third and start of the last third of a semester (term), this may coincide with a mid-semester examination period (midterms).
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A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
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(in combinations) A period of a certain number of months.
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A quantity that lasts or occurs throughout a month.
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(informal) A commemorative event like an anniversary, but taking place monthly rather than annually.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see monthly, meeting.
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Alternative form of nundine. [A market or fair held every eight days, particularly (historical) in Roman contexts.]
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A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
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Clipping of semester. [Half of a school year (US) or academic year such as autumn or spring semester.]
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Half of a school year (US) or academic year such as autumn or spring semester.
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Obsolete form of semester. [Half of a school year (US) or academic year such as autumn or spring semester.]
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Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
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One of the terms of an academic year in those learning institutions that divide their teaching in three roughly equal terms, each about three months long. Compare semester.
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The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
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A period of five days beginning with Monday.
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Abbreviation of week. [Any period of seven consecutive days.]
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(computing) An issue for computing and data storage situations in which time values are stored or calculated as a signed 32-bit integer, and this number is interpreted as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. Such implementations cannot encode times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038
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gap year; sabbatical year
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(management, accounting) The period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period.
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Compared to the same time period in the previous year.
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(management, accounting) Relating to the period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period.
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(rare, nonstandard) A specific time each year; anniversary.
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(computing) Alternative spelling of zero-day [(computing, idiomatic) vulnerability that has been discovered recently, and is yet unpatched or unmitigated; zero-day vulnerability]
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