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term   (TTS Sound)

The noun term has 7 senses

• term -- (a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms")


• term -- (a limited period of time; "a prison term"; "he left school before the end of term")


• condition, term -- ((usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous")


• term -- (any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree")


• term -- (one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition; "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice")


• term, full term -- (the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term")


• terminus, terminal figure, 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)

The verb term has 1 sense

• term -- (name formally or designate with a term)