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Term   /tərm/   Listen
Term

noun
1.
A word or expression used for some particular thing.
2.
A limited period of time.  "He left school before the end of term"
3.
(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement.  Synonym: condition.  "The terms of the treaty were generous"
4.
Any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial.
5.
One of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition.
6.
The end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent.  Synonym: full term.
7.
(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.  Synonyms: terminal figure, terminus.
verb
(past & past part. termed; pres. part. terming)
1.
Name formally or designate with a term.



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... ever. I feel like a good-for-nothing, a cow, damned, antique, deliquescent, in short calm and moderate, which is the last term ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert

... I, too, went to board with the widow and learned every detail of Wiley's stay. One of Hillery's oldest friends had a son who had gone to the bad and was serving a term for highway robbery in a prison near Phoenix. I found that Wiley had taken a great interest in the lad and paid him more than one visit, promising to use his influence to have him pardoned. I went to Phoenix, talked ...
— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant

... extensive repairs, and the Legislature of 1866 had appropriated for the purpose $4,000,000, to be raised by an issue of bonds. This money was to be disbursed by a Board of Levee Commissioners then in existence, but the term of service of these commissioners, and the law creating the board, would expire in the spring of 1867. In order to overcome this difficulty the Legislature passed a bill continuing the commissioners in office but as the act was passed inside of ten days before the adjournment of the Legislature, ...
— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... Moreover it was almost a necessary corollary of their psychological system. The absolute condition of the soul is, according to them, its return, after developing all those perfections, the germs of which are eternally implanted in it, to the Infinite Source from which it emanated. Another term of life must therefore be vouchsafed to those souls which have not fulfilled their destiny here below, and have not been sufficiently purified for the state of union with the Primordial Cause. Hence if the soul, on its first assumption of a human body and sojourn ...
— Reincarnation • Swami Abhedananda

... appointed to the See of Carlisle, and in 1452 transferred to Lichfield. He certainly received from the King the grant of a coat of arms for his services, but it might fairly be said that John Langton, Master of Pembroke College, and Chancellor of the University, who also had the title of "Surveyor," a term generally admitted to be synonymous with architect, has an equally strong claim. But Mr. G. G. Scott, in his essay on English Church Architecture, says "the man who really should have had the credit of conceiving this great work was the master-mason, Reginald Ely, appointed by a patent of Henry ...
— A Short Account of King's College Chapel • Walter Poole Littlechild


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