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1.nounThat which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.""Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms.""
2.nounA chronological limitation or restriction."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."
3.nounAny of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract."Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing."
4.nounA point, line, or superficies that limits."A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid."
5.nounA word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.""Algorithm" is a term used in computer science."
6.nounRelations among people."We are on friendly terms with each other."
7.nounPart of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
8.nounDuration of a set length; period in office of fixed length."He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison."
9.nounWith respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception)."at term, preterm, postterm"
10.noun(of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
11.nounA menstrual period.
12.nounAny value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table."All the terms of this sum cancel out."
13.nounThe subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
14.nounAn 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.
15.nounA statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
16.nounA piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail."The Cabin is large and commodious, well calculated for the Accommodation of Paſengers. Merchandiſe, Produce, &c. carried on the loweſt Terms.https//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Packet_Schooner.jpg"
17.verbTo phrase a certain way; to name or call.
18.adjectiveBorn or delivered at term."term neonate"