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Term
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- 1 Born or delivered at term. colloquial, not-comparable
"term neonate"
- 1 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."
- 2 A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. informal
- 3 One whose employment has been terminated
- 4 (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome wordnet
- 5 A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited 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."
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- 6 any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial wordnet
- 7 Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
"Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing."
- 8 a word or expression used for some particular thing wordnet
- 9 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.]"
- 10 one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition wordnet
- 11 A point, line, or superficies that limits. archaic
"A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid."
- 12 (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement wordnet
- 13 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.
""Algorithm" is a term used in computer science."
- 14 a limited period of time wordnet
- 15 Relations among people.
"We are on friendly terms with each other."
- 16 the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent wordnet
- 17 Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- 18 Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
"He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison."
- 19 Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.; The time during which legal courts are open.
- 20 Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.; Certain days on which rent is paid.
- 21 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."
- 22 The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- 23 A menstrual period. archaic
"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."
- 24 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."
- 25 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."
- 26 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.
- 27 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."
- 28 A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- 1 To phrase a certain way; to name or call. transitive
"Abstraction or prescision ought to be carefully distinguished from two other modes of mental separation, which may be termed discrimination and dissociation."
- 2 To terminate someone's employment. ambitransitive, informal
- 3 name formally or designate with a term wordnet
- 4 To delete someone's account. informal, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English terme, borrowed from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end; in Medieval Latin, also a time, period, word, covenant, etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“stump, end, boundary”). Doublet of terminus and termon. Old English had termen, from the same source.
From Middle English terme, borrowed from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end; in Medieval Latin, also a time, period, word, covenant, etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“stump, end, boundary”). Doublet of terminus and termon. Old English had termen, from the same source.
From Middle English terme, borrowed from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end; in Medieval Latin, also a time, period, word, covenant, etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“stump, end, boundary”). Doublet of terminus and termon. Old English had termen, from the same source.
Clipping of terminal.
Short for terminate, termination, terminated employee, etc.
Short for terminate, termination, terminated employee, etc.
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