"sesquiannual" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From sesqui- + annual.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "text": "1979, R. E. Meyer, Sesquiannual Report – April 1977-September 1978, Fossil Energy Division/DOE (DOE/W-7405-eng–26-1; cited in Surface Phenomena in Enhanced Oil Recovery (2013, →ISBN, page 718)"
        },
        {
          "text": "1990, Sesquiannual Meeting of the American Society for Rickettsiology and Rickettsial Diseases; 8 (the society holds meetings roughly every 1.5 years, e.g. September 1989, May 1991, and September 1992)"
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          "ref": "2012, Information Retrieval Technology: 8th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, edited by Yuexian Hou, Jian-Yun Nie, Le Sun, Bo Wang, and Peng Zhang, →ISBN, page 29:",
          "text": "NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research) is a sesquiannual series of international evaluation workshops hosted by National Institute of Informatics (NII).\n[The 12th NTCIR conference was held 7-10 June 2016 and covered the period January 2015 - June 2016; the 11th conference was held one and a half years earlier 9-12 December 2014 and covered the period September 2013 - December 2014.]",
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      "glosses": [
        "Occurring once every one and a half years (i.e. once every 18 months)."
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        {
          "word": "sesquiennial"
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        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "sesquiannual"
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  "etymology_text": "From sesqui- + annual.",
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  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "sesquiennial"
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          "text": "1979, R. E. Meyer, Sesquiannual Report – April 1977-September 1978, Fossil Energy Division/DOE (DOE/W-7405-eng–26-1; cited in Surface Phenomena in Enhanced Oil Recovery (2013, →ISBN, page 718)"
        },
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          "text": "1990, Sesquiannual Meeting of the American Society for Rickettsiology and Rickettsial Diseases; 8 (the society holds meetings roughly every 1.5 years, e.g. September 1989, May 1991, and September 1992)"
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