Biannual

Definition: Biannual

Biannual

Adjective

1. Occurring or payable twice each year.

Note: Biannual \Bi*an"nu*al\, adjective. [Prefix bi- annual.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Biannual

Synonyms: biyearly (adj), semiannual (adj). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	Automotive: Jupiter Biannual Benchmarking Report [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Classification and Data Analysis: Theory and Application: Proceedings of the Biannual Meeting of the Classification Group of Societa Italia Di stati (reference) Current Issues in Theoretical Psychology: Sel/Edited Proc of the 1st Biannual Conf of the Intl Society for Theoretical Psychology Held in Plymouth, (reference) Mr. Knife, Miss Fork: A Biannual of International Poetry (reference) Real Estate: Jupiter Biannual Benchmarking Report [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Biannual Wyoming Cost Of Living Report (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 555th Fighter Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, arrived in Sidi Slimane Air Base, Morocco, in support of exercise African Eagle. African Eagle is a biannual exercise designed to practice dissimilar air to air training with t.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The most important trade event in Spain that focuses on renewable energy is the biannual trade show Power-Expo, which will take place September, 2002, in Zaragoza. (references)
		Some practitioners may become aware of new products as a result of attending the Biannual Dental Association Congress (and the ADIA trade fair allied to it), although the academic side of the profession tends to keep its distance from equipment companies. (references)
Children	Kuwait	In October the Government announced a biannual $500,000 prize for research to aid persons with special needs to be administered in conjunction with the U.N. Economic, Social, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). (references)
Civil Liberties	Panama	Apparent government efforts to limit freedom of the press attracted the attention of the OAS's Special Rapporteur for freedom of the press, Santiago Canton, in part due to the lack of Panamanian media participation at the biannual meeting of the Inter-American Press Association in March. (references)
Economic History	India	The NRS is a biannual survey of media habits amongst Indians. (references)
Worker Rights	Oman	Employers provide many foreign nationals, including domestic servants, with annual or biannual round-trip tickets to their countries of origin. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Biannual" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.00% of the time. "Biannual" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	96%	24	71,196
Noun (proper)	4%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	25	N/A

Expression using "biannual": semiannual biannual biyearly. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "biannual"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që ndodhet dy herë në vit. (various references)

Arabic		‏نصف سنوي, ‏حادث مرتين في السنة. (various references)

Bulgarian		който става през две години, който става два пъти в годината. (various references)

Czech		pololetní (half yearly). (various references)

Danish		biannuel, toårig. (various references)

Dutch		tweejarig (biennial, two-year, two-year-old). (various references)

Farsi		سالی دوبار, ششماهه , دوسال یکبار. (various references)

Finnish		bienni, kaksivuotinen (biennial, two-year). (various references)

French		bisannuel (biennial), semestriel. (various references)

German		zweimal jährlich (twice yearly). (various references)

Greek		εξαμηνιαίοσ, λαμβάνων χώρα δύο φορέσ το χρόνο, διετής (biennial). (various references)

Hebrew		מופיע פעמים בש� �". (various references)

Indonesian		setahun dua kali (biennial). (various references)

Italian		bienne, biennale (biennial, biyearly, two-year), che ha luogo due volte all'anno. (various references)

Pig Latin		iannualbay

Portuguese		bienal (biennial), semestral (half-yearly, semiannual). (various references)

Romanian		bianual. (various references)

Russian		двухлетний (biennial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dvogodišnji. (various references)

Spanish		biannual, semestral (biyearly, half-yearly, semiannual). (various references)

Swedish		två gånger om året. (various references)

Thai		ที่เกิ�"ขึ้นสองครั้งต่อปี. (various references)

Turkish		yılda iki defa olan. (various references)

Ukranian		дворічний (biennial). (various references)

Vietnamese		một năm hai lần. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	biennis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "biannual": biannually. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Biannual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bannau, bbiannual, biannula, bianual, Bienal, biennual, bienual, Binul, Fionnuala. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "biannual" (pronounced bīa"nuwul)
3	-uw u l	annual, audiovisual, bisexual, conceptual, consensual, continual, contractual, eventual, factual, gradual, habitual, ineffectual, intellectual, manual, menstrual, parimutuel, perpetual, residual, ritual, sexual, transsexual, virtual.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-l-n-n-u"
	-2 letters: abulia, alanin, annual, annuli, banian, unnail.
	-3 letters: annal, annul, banal, binal, blain, labia, lanai, lauan, liana, nubia, unban.
	-4 letters: alan, alba, anal, anil, anna, baal, bail, bani, blin, bunn, lain, linn, luna, naan, nail, nana, ulan, ulna, unai.
	-5 letters: aal, aba, ail, ain, ala, alb, ana, ani, baa, bal, ban, bin, bun, inn, lab.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-l-n-n-u"
	+2 letters: biannually, incunabula.
	+3 letters: subnational, unalienable, unbalancing.
	+4 letters: outbalancing, unambivalent, unattainable, unimaginable, unimaginably, unobtainable.
	+5 letters: confabulating, confabulation, insubstantial, uncontainable, undiagnosable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfashionably, uninhabitable, unsubstantial, unsustainable.
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