term
Meaning
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- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A point, line, or superficies that limits.
- 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.
- Relations among people.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
- The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- A menstrual period.
- Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- 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.
- A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
Synonyms
period of time
refer to
allotted time
terminal point
term of office
give a name to
length of time
fixed date
set time
academic term
time span
experimental condition
boundary tablet
-shaped
appointed day
boundary stone
end-point
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɜːm/
Etymology
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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