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noun (plural terms) |
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1. name or word for something: a word or combination of words, especially one used to mean something very specific or one used in a specialized area of knowledge or work
  The correct legal term is "easement."
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2. period of time something lasts: the length of time that something lasts, with a fixed beginning and end, often a period during which a person holds an appointment or office or serves time in a correctional institution
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during her term of office
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3. law politics period of time body continues meeting: a length of time over which a political or legal body such as a legislature or court of law regularly assembles and carries out its formal duties
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4. education division of academic year: one of the sections of the academic year during which students attend a school, college, or university and receive regular instruction
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5. deadline for payment: a specific time, especially for making a payment
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6. medicine expected time for birth of child: the time at the end of a woman's pregnancy when the baby is expected to be born
a pregnancy that came to term
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7. logic subject or predicate of proposition: in traditional Aristotelian logic, the subject or the predicate of a categorical proposition
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8. logic name or individual variable: in modern logic, a name or individual variable
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9. mathematics mathematical expression: a mathematical expression that forms part of a fraction or proportion, is part of a series, or is associated with another by a plus or minus sign
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10. sculpture sculptured pillar: a sculptured pillar, especially one with a bust without arms or an animal portrait on top of a square post
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11. law estate of limited duration: an estate limited to a prescribed period
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plural noun terms |
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1. way people get along together: the treatment given by one person, nation, or power to another, or the opinions or attitudes they have or express toward each other
on good terms with the neighbors
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2. parts that make up agreement: the requirements laid down formally in an agreement or contract, or proposed by one side when negotiating an agreement
the terms of the lease
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3. language: the words that somebody uses, or specifically chooses to use, when speaking or writing
defended his position in robust terms
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transitive verb (past and past participle termed, present participle term·ing, 3rd person present singular terms) |
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use particular word for something: to describe or refer to something using a particular name or expression
His followers were termed "Roundheads."
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| [13th century. Via French terme "limit of time or space" < Latin terminus "end, boundary, limit"] |
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come to terms (with something) to reach a state of acceptance or of agreement about something
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in no uncertain terms very forcefully, unambiguously, and bluntly
I told him in no uncertain terms what I thought of his suggestion.
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in terms of something in relation to something
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not be on speaking terms (with somebody) to have had a quarrel or disagreement with somebody, so that neither one will speak to the other
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