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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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"Term" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Augustana Part Twenty-Seven: Article Twenty-Two of the Augustana Part Twenty-Eight: Article Twenty-Three of the Augustana Part Twenty-Nine: Article Twenty-Four of the Augustana Part Thirty: A Definition of the term "Sacrifice" Part Thirty-One: What the Fathers Thought About Sacrafice Part Thirty-Two: Of the Use of the Sacrament and Sacrifice Part Thirty-Three: Of the Term "Mass" Part Thirty-Four:Of the Mass for the Dead Part Thirty-Five: Of Monastic Vows Part Thirty-Six: ...
— The Apology of the Augsburg Confession • Philip Melanchthon
... also to have been in the country during the hunting season, with 'a select party of distinguished guests,' as the papers term it. He ought to have seen the gentlemen after dinner (on the hunting days), and the soiree ensuing thereupon,—and the women looking as if they had hunted, or rather been hunted; and I could have wished that he had been at a dinner in town, which ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... preparations, e.g., mercury oleate (Hydrargyri oleatum), zinc oleate and lead plaster, together with a number of other metallic salts of fatty acids. Technically speaking, however, the meaning of the term soap is considerably restricted, being generally limited to the combinations of fatty acids and alkalies, obtained by treating various animal or vegetable fatty matters, or the fatty acids derived ...
— The Handbook of Soap Manufacture • W. H. Simmons
... opposite that highly cultivated being. "Let us go back, Lankin," said I to the Serjeant, and he was nothing loth; for most of the other serjeants, barristers, and Queen's counsel were turning homewards, by this time, the period of term time summoning them ...
— The Christmas Books • William Makepeace Thackeray
... its sins hath grown greatly upon him. I will venture to say he feels more at home amid these gauds and giddy flowered damasks and soft cushions and numerous things the elect would term idols of the carnal sort," glancing around. "And the vain women who frequent houses like these. I see thou art tricked out with much worldly vanity, and thy father was one of the straitest Friends. ...
— A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia • Amanda Minnie Douglas


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