Timeline for Hypernym for "trimester" and "quarter" [closed]
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| Aug 27, 2013 at 11:57 | history | closed |
MetaEd TrevorD choster Hugo Bravo |
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| Aug 26, 2013 at 11:18 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | No, a quarter is (among other things) three months, just like ‘trimester’. It is the same word as cuarto in Spanish, so it just means ‘one fourth’; i.e., 15 minutes (if relating to an hour), three months (if relating to a year), etc. This doesn’t change the fact that a three-month period can still be a subdivision of many different things, and therefore, the question needs context to be answered. If you asked in Spanish what the hypernym for cuarto is, should it be ‘fractions’, ‘living spaces’, or ‘time units’? It could be all three in different contexts. | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 11:13 | comment | added | Nerian | Actually I just found the core issue: In Spain there is the word 'Cuatrimetre' which means a period of 4 months. I was in the confusion that quarter was the translation of that word. | |
| Aug 25, 2013 at 21:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 25, 2013 at 19:28 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Please add the context to your question—as answers have shown, both ‘trimester’ and ‘quarter’ can be used to describe various different things, and a hypernym for them will differ depending on the context. For example, both ‘stage(s) of pregnancy’ or ‘academic terms’ could be correct answers in the right circumstances. | |
| Aug 25, 2013 at 15:31 | vote | accept | Nerian | ||
| Aug 25, 2013 at 13:30 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Aug 25, 2013 at 13:26 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 25, 2013 at 13:19 | answer | added | Bravo | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 25, 2013 at 13:18 | history | edited | TrevorD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 25, 2013 at 13:12 | answer | added | Pam | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 25, 2013 at 13:10 | history | asked | Nerian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |