term

noun terms

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. often, plural Any of the binding conditions or promises in a contract or agreement. Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.
3. in 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.]
4. 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.
5. Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. The president is almost half way through his term.
6. The time during which legal courts are open.
7. Certain days on which rent is paid.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. archaic 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.
11. of a patent The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
12. in plural Relations among people. We are on friendly terms with each other.
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. in plural A stated kind of language or terminology. Could you explain that in layman's terms?
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. archaic A point, line, or superficies that limits. A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
19. 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.
20. A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.

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verb terms · terming · termed

1. transitive 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.

   Similar: describe as, designate, dub, name, refer to

adjective

1. colloquial, not comparable Born or delivered at term. term neonate

noun terms

1. informal A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.

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verb terms · terming · termed

1. ambitransitive, informal To terminate someone's employment.
2. informal, transitive, of an online moderator To delete someone's account.

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noun terms

1. One whose employment has been terminated

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