term

Meaning

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. (archaic) 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 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.
13. The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
14. (archaic) 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

1. (ambitransitive, informal) To terminate someone's employment.
2. (informal, transitive) To delete someone's account.

Synonyms

period

word

condition

time

⌚

semester

season

name

terminology

era

date

📅

call

stipulation

epoch

member

age

title

space

time limit

expression

phase

requirement

semester

stage

provision

technical term

dub

duration

period of time

full term

language

designation

trimester

half-year

interval

deadline

spell

terminus

qualification

cycle

saying

agreement

school year

session

conditions

quarter

proviso

refer to

restriction

nominate

appoint

Translations

terme

término

🔚

termine

🔚

term

termo

période

όρος

período

Frist

Begriff

περίοδος

terme

Terminus

periode

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɜːm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: terme

Cognate with Old English: -

In summary

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.

Sentences

I always thought it was the most retarded term ever .

In the short term future , prices will triple .

Little attended Cane Hill College in Washington County for one term .

By his third term Nein was serving as majority floor leader of the House .

The president is elected by the National Assembly for a five-year term .

Bit is the short term for binary digit .