Term

Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries.

At the decline of day, Winding above the mountain’s snowy term, New banners shone: […]

"Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms."

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.

Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.

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.

The Cabin is large and commodious, well calculated for the Accommodation of Paſengers. Merchandiſe, Produce, &c. carried on the loweſt Terms.

A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.

"Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.

The noun phrase "red blood cell", the acronym "RBC", and the word "erythrocyte" are synonymous terms.

We are on friendly terms with each other.

Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.

He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.

near-term, mid-term and long-term goals

the term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt

“I don’t believe that the people trust Netanyahu to lead when he is under the burden of such a devastating event that just happened under his term,” he told the Observer.

A pregnancy didn't come to term.

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.

All the terms of this sum cancel out.

One only term is odd in ( 12; 3; 4 ).

The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.

The pillers that haue bolſtered vp thoſe tearmes, Are falne in cluſters at my conquering feet.

You have been already informed, I have no doubt, of the subject which we have chosen: the adorning a Term of Hymen with festoons of flowers.

Abstraction or prescision ought to be carefully distinguished from two other modes of mental separation, which may be termed discrimination and dissociation.

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.

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