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/tɜːm/
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- Australia
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[tʰɜːm]
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- Australia
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[tʰɐ̝ːm]
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- Australia
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/tɜɹm/
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- Canada
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[tʰɝm]
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- Canada
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[tʰɚ̞m]
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- General-American
Noun
That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
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Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries.
At the decline of day, Winding above the mountain’s snowy term, New banners shone: […]
A condition or restriction. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a contract or agreement.
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Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.
Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms.
A condition or restriction. Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
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Q: What are your company's terms? A: Net thirty, cash or check. [This answer means that the net total must be paid within 30 days; see Net D.]
The latest models are available now, on the lowest terms you'll find anywhere, guaranteed.
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The Cabin is large and commodious, well calculated for the Accommodation of Paſengers. Merchandiſe, Produce, &c. carried on the loweſt Terms.
A chronological limitation or division. A limited or defined timespan.
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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.
He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.
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The term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt.
near-term, mid-term and long-term goals
A chronological limitation or division. Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
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The president is almost half way through his term.
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“I don’t believe that the people trust Netanyahu to lead when he is under the burden of such a devastating event that just happened under his term,” he told the Observer.
"To show just how much I care about the press, and because I want to save your ratings, I'm pleased to announce my intention to run for a fourth term as President of the United States," Trump told the audience.
A chronological limitation or division. The time during which legal courts are open.
A chronological limitation or division. Certain days on which rent is paid.
A chronological limitation or division. Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
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At our school, sports day was always held at the end of the summer term.
From 1960 to 1963 I spent my terms at Cambridge University but was back home for the vacs[.]
A chronological limitation or division. With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
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A pregnancy didn't come to term.
at term
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preterm
postterm
A chronological limitation or division. A menstrual period.
Usage- Archaic
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My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again.
A chronological limitation or division. The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
Usage- of a patent
Relations among people.
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We are on friendly terms with each other.
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Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
A unit or component with a certain meaning. A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
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"Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
The noun phrase "red blood cell", the acronym "RBC", and the word "erythrocyte" are synonymous terms.
A unit or component with a certain meaning. A stated kind of language or terminology.
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Could you explain that in layman's terms?
I told her in no uncertain terms that it was none of her business.
A unit or component with a certain meaning. Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
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All the terms of this sum cancel out.
One only term is odd in ( 12; 3; 4 ).
A unit or component with a certain meaning. The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
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The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
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 point, line, or superficies that limits.
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A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
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The pillers that haue bolſtered vp thoſe tearmes, Are falne in cluſters at my conquering feet.
You have been already informed, I have no doubt, of the subject which we have chosen: the adorning a Term of Hymen with festoons of flowers.
A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
Verb
To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
Usage- Transitive
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Abstraction or prescision ought to be carefully distinguished from two other modes of mental separation, which may be termed discrimination and dissociation.
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The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
Adjective
Born or delivered at term.
Usage- Colloquial
- not-comparable
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term neonate
Noun
A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
Usage- Informal
Verb
To terminate someone's employment.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
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To delete someone's account.
Usage- Informal
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- of an online moderator
Noun
One whose employment has been terminated
Noun
a word or expression used for some particular thing
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he learned many medical terms
a limited period of time
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a prison term
he left school before the end of term
(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
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the contract set out the conditions of the lease
the terms of the treaty were generous
any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
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the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree
one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
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the major term of a syllogism must occur twice
the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
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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
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Verb
name formally or designate with a term
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