term

Significado

Noun

1. That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
2. A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
3. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
4. Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
5. A point, line, or superficies that limits.
6. 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.
7. Relations among people.
8. Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
9. Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
10. Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
11. Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
12. With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
13. The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
14. A menstrual period.
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.
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.
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. A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
19. A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.

Verb

To phrase a certain way; to name or call.

Adj

Born or delivered at term.

Verb

To terminate one's employment

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/tɜːm/

Etimología

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.”).
Doublet of terminus and termon. Old English had termen, from the same source.

Oraciones

In the short term future , prices will triple .

En el futuro a corto plazo, los precios se triplicarán.

As such , the term " guru " is a controversial one .

Como tal, el término "gurú" es controvertido.

Bit is the short term for binary digit .

Bit es el corto plazo para el dígito binario.