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From Middle English terme, from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end, in Medieval Latin also a time, period, word, covenant, etc.”).

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term (plural terms)

  1. limitation, restriction or regulation.
    terms and conditions
  2. word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
  3. Relations among people.
    We are on friendly terms with each other.
  4. part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
  5. (mathematics) any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a + or - sign in an overall expression
    All of these terms cancel out.
  6. duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
    He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.
    near-term, mid-term and long-term goals
  7. (computing) a terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal
  8. (of a patent) the maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force
  9. (astrology) 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
  10. (archaic) a menstrual period.
    • 1660, Samuel Pepys Diary
      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.

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limitation, restriction or regulation
word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge
relations among people
part of a year
period of time, time limit
one of the addends in a sum
period in office or prison
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term (third-person singular simple present terms, present participle terming, simple past and past participle termed)

  1. To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
    • 1867, Charles Sanders Peirce, On a New List of Categories:
      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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term m. (plural termen, diminutive termpje)

  1. term; A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
  2. (mathematics) term; One of the addends in a sum

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term c.

  1. a term[1] (a well-defined word or phrase, in a terminology)
  2. (mathematics) a term[2] (an operand in addition or subtraction)
  3. singular of termer (“thermae, Roman baths”) (a facility for bathing in ancient Rome)

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Declension of term
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative term termen termer termerna
genitive terms termens termers termernas

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  1. ^ term in Rikstermbanken
  2. ^ term in Rikstermbanken
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