academic term
- noun
- /ˌækəˈdɛmɪk tɜrm/
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período académico
- Twenty individual semi-structured interviews were conducted per academic term.
- end of the academic term
- summer academic term
And so after a year and a half, you know, both summers and the university academic term semester, I was amazing at French.
- And so after a year and a half, you know, both summers and the university academic term semester, I was amazing at French.
Examples
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Five focus-group interviews took place each academic term during the research process.
Academic text (2008) -
Each student must complete their assignments by the end of the academic term.
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During the last four weeks of each academic term during the course of this research, students were asked to volunteer for an alternative evaluation process.
Academic text (2008) -
The coordinator assigned the preservice teachers to schools at the beginning of the academic term.
Academic text (2005) -
We began our detailed analysis first by collecting the transcripts from the interviews conducted the previous academic term.
Academic text (2014) -
The coordinator administered the questionnaire to the field experience students during the final seminar of the academic term.
Academic text (2005) -
The faculty observations, although meaningful, were primarily performed once during an academic term with little follow-up subsequent to teaching episodes.
Academic text (2008) -
Seventy-two preservice teachers completed an open-ended questionnaire during the final field experience seminar of the academic term.
Academic text (2005) -
Lastly, during the spring 2004 academic term, clinical consultation cycles were implemented to complement the videotape instructional analysis processes.
Academic text (2008) -
The university will host a graduation ceremony at the conclusion of the academic term.
Synonyms
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5.8
A fixed period of time during which something happens, for example a school session or a prison sentence
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1.5
A period that is half the school or university year for classes and exams
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2.2
A time when classes are held at a school
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1.0
A period when a school has regular classes
The period when classes are held at a school or university
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'academic' specifies the domain (schools/universities) and 'term' denotes a set period, so together they naturally mean the period during which classes are held. This adjective+noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows transparent semantic combination, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand the MWE.
Etymology
Academic term comes from two simple ideas: academic (from the word 'academy', a place for learning) and term (an old word for a fixed 'period'). Imagine a school dividing the year into set times when classes meet; each time is a 'term', so academic term means the period when a school holds classes.