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

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