academic term
Class session duration
An academic term is a division of the school year during which classes are held and students complete coursework.
Most institutions use semesters (two terms) or quarters (three or four terms).
The phrase also refers to specialized vocabulary used in scholarly contexts: The paper was full of academic terms I didn't understand.
- trimesterThirteen-week span
- lectureEducational spoken presentation
- quarterOne of four parts
- gradeClassification by rank
- dean's listAcademic achievement recognition
registration · half-year · orientation week · matriculation · school year · fall semester · office hours · enrollment · credit hour · classes · freshman · syllabus · junior · tuition · coursework · dean · sophomore · semester
- school calendarsemester, trimester, quarter, fall semester, winter break
- termsword, phrase, expression, nomenclature, jargon
- academic calendarsemester, trimester, quarter, session, start date
- school yearsfreshman year, sophomore year, junior year, senior year, first year
academic termsummer vacation
Warm-season break from school
summer break · school holiday · winter break · spring break · recess
academic termfree time
Unscheduled personal hours
leisure time · downtime · work experience · real-world experience · practical training
academic termcolloquialism
Casual conversational expression
slang term · vernacular · common parlance · plain English · street language
term, academic, terms, terminal, academy, terminate, termination, midterm, interminable