term

Meanings

Noun

• That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.
• A chronological limitation or restriction.
• Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
• A point, line, or superficies that limits.
• A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
• Relations among people.
• Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
• Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
• With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
• 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.
• 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.
• A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
• One whose employment has been terminated

Verb

• To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
• To terminate one's employment

Adjective

• Born or delivered at term.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• blanket term
• collective term
• umbrella term
• trimester, semester, quarter

Origin

• terminus. Old English had termen, from the same source.
• Short for terminate, termination, terminated employee, etc.