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Definition of 'term'Noun
( en-noun)
Limitation, restriction or regulation. (rfex)
Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
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That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
* Francis Bacon
- Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms , or boundaries.
(geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
- A line is the term''' of a superficies, and a superficies is the '''term of a solid.
A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
- "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
Relations among people.
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* |chapter=22
|title= The Mirror and the Lamp
|passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
(mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
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(logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
* Sir W. Hamilton
- The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
(architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
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(computing) A terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal.
(of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
(astrology) 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.
(archaic) A menstrual period.
* 1660 , (Samuel Pepys), Diary
- 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.
(nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
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Derived terms
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Related terms
* terminal
* terminate
See also
* idiom
* lexeme
* listeme
* word
Verb
( en-verb)
To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
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* {{quote-magazine|year=2013|month=September-October|author=(Henry Petroski)
|magazine=( American Scientist)|title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses
|passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}
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