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term

UK /tɜːm/US /tɜɹm/

noun 25
verb 3
adjective 1
forms 5
phrases 6

noun25

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a word or group of words that names a thing or an idea, often in a particular subject or job
- "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
- The noun phrase "red blood cell", the acronym "RBC", and the word "erythrocyte" are synonymous terms.
A unit or component with a certain meaning.
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[in the plural] A stated kind of language or terminology.
- Could you explain that in layman's terms?
- I told her in no uncertain terms that it was none of her business.
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The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes. — 1857
A chronological limitation or division.
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A limited or defined timespan.
- The term of a lease agreement is the period of time during which the lease is effective, and may be fixed, periodic, or of indefinite duration.
- He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.
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Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- The president is almost half way through his term.
The time during which legal courts are open.
Certain days on which rent is paid.
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Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- At our school, sports day was always held at the end of the summer term.
The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
A condition or restriction.
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Any of the binding conditions or promises in a contract or agreement.
- Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.
- Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms.
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[in the plural] Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- Q: What are your company's terms? A: Net thirty, cash or check. [This answer means that the net total must be paid within 30 days; see Net D.]
- The latest models are available now, on the lowest terms you'll find anywhere, guaranteed.
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[in the plural] Relations among people.
- We are on friendly terms with each other.
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With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
- A pregnancy didn't come to term.
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Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- All the terms of this sum cancel out.
- One only term is odd in ( 12; 3; 4 ).
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That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries. — 1627
(informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
One whose employment has been terminated
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A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- The pillers that haue bolstered vp those tearmes, Are falne in clusters at my conquering feet. — 1587
A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
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.
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(no longer used) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
- A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
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(no longer used) A menstrual period.
- My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again. — 1660

verb3

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To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
- Abstraction or prescision ought to be carefully distinguished from two other modes of mental separation, which may be termed discrimination and dissociation. — 1867
(informal) To terminate someone's employment.
(informal) To delete someone's account.

adjective1

Born or delivered at term.

forms

termed · terming · termeth · terms · termest

Phrases with term

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