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semester | American Dictionary

semester
noun[ C ]
us/səˈmes·tər/
either of the two periods into which a year is divided at a school or university:
fall/spring semester

Examples of semester

semester
First, students were able to read a full-length authentic text in the first semester.
Naturalistic observations were carried out in the two classrooms over a 10-week period during the spring semester of the academic year.
The last semester of gestation is characterized by the beginning of an exuberant increase in the number of synaptic contacts throughout the brain.
The prose reads like the transcription from a semester of lectures or from a very long conversation carried out between mentor and student.
One group of participants began the intervention program in the spring semester of 1998, another in spring 1999, and a third in fall 1999.
The research study was conducted over a period of five consecutive academic semesters and the intervening summers.
Table 3 presents these data for semesters 1 and 2, in order to be able to consider any significant change across the academic year.
Nineteen students were assessed for sensitivity to criticism, self-reported motivation, and perceived quality of performance early and late in the semester.
This article examines transcripts from a semester-long asynchronous discussion between foreign language methodology classes at two different universities.
However, a number of important positive results could be observed at the end of the semester.
We have observed in previous experiments that students' motivation to perform in an experiment declines at the very end of the academic semester.
They had a lot at stake: taking another semester or two or only a brush-up course of remediation.
Students also continue throughout the semester to participate in one or two activities from their first rotation, lending some continuity to the practicum experience.
The author expresses his thanks to the audience in the lectures for their patience and to the organizers of the semester for their invitation.
During the first five weeks of the semester, a range of activities and discussions took place in order to consider the potential peer assessment procedures.
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Collocations withsemester

semester

These are words often used in combination with semester.

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entire semester
The variables used in the analyses below were the overall proportion of the child's observations over the entiresemester that the particular behaviour or code was present.
fall semester
The study was carried out during the end of the fallsemester and the beginning of the winter semester.
final semester
The third film is set in the finalsemester of senior year.
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