term

Meaning

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.

term

period

word

condition

semester

time

season

name

date

terminology

era

call

stipulation

epoch

member

age

title

expression

space

time limit

provision

requirement

phase

technical term

stage

dub

trimester

duration

half-year

spell

interval

deadline

terminus

full term

qualification

designation

period of time

language

designate

label

proviso

quarter

appoint

nominate

addend

allotted time

phrase

fiscal year

school year

year

agreement

restriction

session

saying

statement

entitle

lifetime

span

cycle

clause

terminal figure

tenor

terminal

vocable

noun

conditions

terms

refer to

tenure

denomination

day

nomenclature

side

limb

summand

coefficient

academic term

notion

time frame

subject

remark

words

length of time

glossary

vocabulary

confession

account

baby

content

message

passage

text

occasion

course

limit

express

show

give a name to

innings

mount

mountain

technicality

factor

terms and conditions

boundary stone

boundary tablet

monument

rock

dead end

destination

end point

end-point

terminal point

time span

form

describe

incumbency

term of office

concept

perception

description

identification

marking

appointment

clocking

hour

quite

rather

reasonably

stint

temporal

patch

stretch

experimental condition

precondition

specification

define

qualify

test

intent

intention

parlance

denominate

component

element

part

Word

colloquialism

slang

appointed day

fixed date

phraseology

wording

discord

set time

district

chukka

chukker

instant

minute

moment

second

life

due date

summer

aeon

century

death

end

point

-shaped

drake

mot

Michaelmas term

Christian name

appellation

appellative

first name

forename

given name

proper name

proper noun

surname

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɜːm/

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.

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