term

Meanings

• a word or expression used for some particular thing
  • "he learned many medical terms"
• a limited period of time
  • "a prison term"
  • "he left school before the end of term"
• (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
  • "the terms of the treaty were generous"
• any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
  • "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree"
• one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
  • "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice"
• the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
  • "a healthy baby born at full term"
• (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
• name formally or designate with a term

Synonyms

condition, full term, terminal figure, terminus