terms
noun
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.
""Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms.""
- A chronological limitation or restriction.
"The term of a lease agreement is the period of time during which the lease is effective, and may be fixed, periodic, or of indefinite duration."
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
"Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing."
- 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.
"We are on friendly terms with each other."
- Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
- Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
"He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison."
- With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
"at term, preterm, postterm"
- (of a patent) 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.
"All the terms of this sum cancel out."
- 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.
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verb
- To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
noun
- A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
noun
- One whose employment has been terminated
verb
- To terminate one's employment
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