term
IPA: tˈɝm
noun
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- Relations among people.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (archaic) A menstrual period.
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- One whose employment has been terminated
verb
- To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
- (transitive, intransitive) To terminate one's employment
adjective
- (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term.
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Examples of "term" in Sentences
- Scandals roil end of Obama's first term.
- She graciously bowed down at the end of her term.
- Kennedy is retiring at the end of the current term.
- It is also the root word of the term eidetic memory.
- The insidious language he uses is a violation of terms.
- Is the origin of the term at the end of the article serious
- At the end of the day, the terms of submission were settled.
- I am not looking for the word metonymy, but for a more specific term.
- The term has ideological uses beyond the literal meanings of the word.
- Lastly, the language is mutable, one days slang is tomarrows stock term.
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