Dictionary Definition
term
Noun
1 a word or expression used for some particular
thing; "he learned many medical terms"
2 a limited period of time; "a prison term"; "he
left school before the end of term"
3 (usually plural) a statement of what is
required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the
conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous"
[syn: condition]
4 any distinct quantity contained in a
polynomial; "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th
degree"
5 one of the substantive phrases in a logical
proposition; "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice"
6 the end of gestation or point at which birth is
imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term" [syn: full
term]
7 (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an
animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as
a boundary marker in ancient Rome [syn: terminus, terminal
figure] v : name formally or designate with a term
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- A limitation,
restriction or
regulation.
- terms and conditions
- A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
- Relations among
people.
- We are on friendly terms with each other.
- A part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year in Britain; Michaelmas term, Lent term or Easter term, the equivalent to the American semester.
- any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from
another term by a + or - sign in an overall expression
- All of these terms cancel out.
- a duration of a set length; a period in office of fixed length.
- a terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal
- In the context of "of a patent": the maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force
- 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
Derived terms
Translations
limitation, restriction or regulation
word or phrase, especially one from a
specialised area of knowledge
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 术语 (shùyǔ)
- Dutch: term
- trreq Esperanto
- Finnish: termi
- French: terme, mot, expression
- German: Begriff, Bezeichnung, Terminus
- Greek: όρος
- trreq Hebrew
- trreq Hindi
- Hungarian: szakkifejezés
- Italian: termine
- Japanese: 言葉 (kotoba), 用語 (yōgo)
- Lithuanian: sąlyga
- trreq Norwegian
- trreq Persian
- Portuguese: termo
- Russian: термин
- Scots: tairm
- Spanish: término
- Swedish: term , begrepp , beteckning
- Thai: (kam), (sàp)
- trreq Turkish
relations among people
- Dutch: voet
- Finnish: väleissä
- Hungarian: viszony
- Lithuanian: terminas
- Swedish: fot
part of a year
one of the addends in a sum
- Dutch: term
- Finnish: termi
- French: terme
- German: Term
- Portuguese: termo
- Russian: слагаемое (slagájemoje)
- Spanish: término
- Swedish: term
period in office or prison
- Greek: θητεία
- ttbc Chinese: 期限 (qīxiàn)
- ttbc Korean: 기간 (gigan)
- ttbc Lithuanian: trimestras, ketvirtis (~3 months), semestras (~4 months)
Verb
- To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
Dutch
Noun
Extensive Definition
Term may refer to:
- Term (computers) or terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal
- Term (language), a word or compound word used in a specific context
- Term (mathematics), a component of a mathematical expression
- Academic term, a division of the academic year in which classes are held
- Contractual term, a legally binding provision
- Technical term, part of the specialized vocabulary of a particular field
- Terms or bounds, a concept in astrology
- Term of office, the length of time a person serves in a particular office
- Term of patent, the maximum period during which a patent can be maintained in force
- Term symbol, a concept in quantum mechanics
See also
term in French: Terme
term in Lithuanian: Terminas
term in Georgian: ტერმინი
term in Romanian: Termen
term in Russian: Терм
term in Finnish: Termi
term in Turkish: Terim
term in Chinese: 術語
term in Yiddish: טערמין
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Z, abundant
year, academic year, adjectival phrase, administration, agree, annum, antonym, apodosis, appellation, arrange, articles, articulation, as regards,
assumptions,
balance, baptize, basis, bissextile year, border
line, bound, boundary, boundary condition,
boundary line, bourn,
break boundary, breakoff point, calendar month, calendar year,
call, catastrophe, ceasing, ceiling, century, cessation, christen, chronology, circumscription,
clause, clauses, coda, come to terms, common year,
compass, compromise, concerning, conclusion, condition, conditions, confine, confines, construction, consummation, continuity, continuous
tenure, course, crack of
doom, culmination,
curtain, curtains, cutoff, cutoff point, day, deadline, death, decade, decease, decennary, decennium, defective year,
define, delimitation, denominate, denouement, designate, designation, destination, destiny, detail, determinant, division line,
doom, dub, duration, duree, effect, end, end point, ending, enlistment, entitle, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, exception, expiration, expression, extremity, fate, final solution, final twitch,
final words, finale,
finality, finis, finish, fiscal year, floor, footing, fortnight, free form, frontier, glosseme, go, goal, headed group, hedge, high-water mark, hitch, homograph, homonym, homophone, hour, icon, identify, idiom, idiotism, in relation to,
incumbency, interface, interval, item, izzard, label, last, last breath, last gasp, last
things, last trumpet, last words, lastingness, latter end,
leap year, lexeme,
lexical form, limen,
limit, limitation, limiting factor,
line, line of demarcation,
linguistic form, locution, logos, low-water mark, lower
limit, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, manner of
speaking, march, mark, mete, metonym, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minimum free
form, minute, moment, monosyllable, month, moon, morpheme, name, nickname, nominate, noun phrase, omega, paragraph, particular, payment, payoff, peculiar expression,
period, peroration, phase, phrasal idiom, phrase, point, polysyllable, position, prison term, provision, provisions, proviso, psychological time,
qualification,
quarter, quietus, quinquennium, rates, reconcile, regarding, regular year,
relating to, relations, relationship, relative to,
reservation,
resolution, resting
place, schedule,
second, semasiological
unit, sememe, semester, sentence, session, set phrase, settle, sidereal year, sign, signifiant, significant, sitting, solar year, space, space-time, span, specify, spell, standard phrase, standing, start, starting line, starting
point, stint, stipulation, stipulations, stoppage, stopping place,
stretch, string, strings, style, sun, swan song, syllable, symbol, synonym, syntactic structure,
tag, target date, tense, tenure, terminal, terminal date,
termination,
terminus, terms, the future, the past, the
present, threshold,
tide, time, time allotment, timebinding, title, token, tour, trimester, turn, turn of expression, turn of
phrase, twelvemonth,
type, upper limit, usage, utterance, verb complex, verb
phrase, verbalism,
verbum, vocable, way of speaking,
week, weekday, while, windup, with regard to, word, word-group, year