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Definitions for TERM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to designate
• give a descriptive name to; call by a specified term
• name formally or designate with a term
• name or designate
NOUN:
• a word or phrase used to describe a thing or to express a concept, especially in a particular kind of language or branch of study
• language used on a particular occasion; a way of expressing oneself
• a word or words that may be the subject or predicate of a proposition.
• a fixed or limited period for which something, for example office, imprisonment, or investment, lasts or is intended to last
• (especially in Scotland) a fixed day of the year appointed for the making of payments, the start or end of tenancies, etc.
• the completion of a normal length of pregnancy
• a tenancy of a fixed period.
• a boundary or limit, especially of time.
• each of the periods in the year, alternating with holiday or vacation, during which instruction is given in a school, college, or university, or during which a law court holds sessions
• conditions under which an action may be undertaken or agreement reached; stipulated or agreed requirements
• conditions with regard to payment for something; stated charges
• agreed conditions under which a war or other dispute is brought to an end
• each of the quantities in a ratio, series, or mathematical expression.
• word or expression
• That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
• The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life.
• In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.
• A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
• A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration
• The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years.
• A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation.
• The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes.
• The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
• A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term.
• A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.
• A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd.
• The menses.
• Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions.
• In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents.
• A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
• To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate.
• a word or expression used for some particular thing
• a limited period of time
• (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
• any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
• one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
• the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
• (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
• the duration of a person's life.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to give a name to

Words related to TERM

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Words that contain TERM

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How to use TERM in a sentence

• Whence presuming, that when they have in discourse used any term, they have thereby, as it were, set before others the very thing they talked of.
• He holds that their foundation lies in the social instincts under which term are included family ties.
• This latter power is given to it because being elected for a short term it is more directly under the control of the people than is the senate.
• Above this are what we should call boxes, and above them again what we usually term a gallery.
• He had read the work of the historian Raumer on America, and declared that from this he could get no notion whatever as to what the term meant with us.
• You must keep him here till vacation, and next term he can exchange his room.
• Truth, Lord, I confess I am as bad as Thou canst term me, yet I confess, too, that there is no comfort but from Thee, and tho I am a dog, yet I would have crumbs.
• Some of their villages were permanent, at any rate for a term of years, and near them they cultivated small crops of corn and melons.
• At the end of the term most of his pupils gave up the hopeless effort.
• Reports of cases decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia at the March term, 1934.
• He retired March 4, 1797, having declined a third term.
• You are about to explain away the term gentleman into man of honor, honest man, or some other quite different thing.
• Every recitation room has been full, and many crowded, this term.
• Burr came calmly back to the Capitol and finished his term as Vice-president.
• Indeed, it must be acknowledged, that the term republic is of very vague application in every language.
• Bacon, on the Cambridge road, was, at the late term of the Supreme Court at Concord, convicted of the crime, and had sentence of death pronounced against him.
• But I reflect that the latter term is a loose one, seeing that it embraces all possible degrees of evidence short of actual proof.
• We will now examine the cases in which Christ uses the term Gehenna, and ask what it means.
• Palliser talked of next Easter as the term of his return.
• The men therefore were not criminals in the ordinary sense of the term.
• The annual term of the Supreme Court begins the second Monday of October and lasts until about May.
• White is becoming to my hair, which narrow-minded persons term red, but which has been known to cause the more discriminating to draw heavily on the dictionary for adjectives.
• A name given in the German universities to a student during his fifth term.
• It had been the greatest relief, somehow, when Anne returned to Delphi for the fall term.
• The sentence was sure to be a death sentence or a term of long imprisonment.
• There had never been, however, what the world is pleased to term entanglements.
• We require a military term of training, compulsory on all young men, for its effect in straightening the person and strengthening the will.

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