term

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Etymology

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.”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: tûrm, IPA: /tɜːm/, X-SAMPA: /t3:m/
• (US) enPR: tûrm, IPA: /tɝm/, X-SAMPA: /t3`m/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)m

Noun

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 space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.

   All the terms of this sum cancel out.

   One only term is odd in ( 12; 3; 4 ).

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.

Derived terms

Derived terms

at term blanket term collective term come to terms long-term midterm

short-term term limit term logic term of art terms and conditions umbrella term

Related terms

• terminal
• terminate

Translations

limitation, restriction or regulation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 條件 (cmn), 条件 (cmn) (tiáojiàn)

• Czech: podmínka (cs) f
• Estonian: tingimus (et)
• Finnish: ehto (fi)
• French: limite (fr) f
• German: Klausel (de) f
• Hungarian: feltétel (hu)
• Irish: téarma (ga) m, téarmaí (ga) pl

• Italian: termine (it) m
• Lithuanian: terminas m (as time limit)
• Norwegian: vilkår (no) n
• Polish: warunek (pl) m
• Portuguese: termo (pt) m
• Romanian: limită (ro)
• Russian: условие (ru) (uslóvije) n
• Spanish: términos (es) m pl
• Swedish: klausul (sv) c, villkor (sv) n, förhållningsregel (sv) c
• Telugu: షరతు (sharathu), నిబంధన (nibandhana)

word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge

• Arabic: اِصْطِلاح (ar) (iSTilaaH) m
• Armenian: տերմին (hy) (termin), եզր (hy) (ezr), եզրույթ (hy) (ezruytʿ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 術語 (cmn), 术语 (cmn) (shùyǔ)

• Czech: termín (cs) m
• Dutch: term (nl) m
• Esperanto: termino (eo)
• Estonian: mõiste (et), termin (et)
• Finnish: termi (fi)
• French: terme (fr) m, mot (fr) m, expression (fr) f
• German: Begriff (de) m, Bezeichnung (de) f, Terminus (de) m
• Greek: όρος (el) (óros) m
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: szakkifejezés (hu)
• Irish: téarma (ga) f, téarmaí (ga) pl

• Italian: termine (it) m
• Japanese: 用語 (ja) (ようご, yōgo), 言葉 (ja) (ことば, kotoba)
• Lithuanian: sąlyga f
• Luxembourgish: Begrëff (lb) m
• Norwegian: term (no) m
• Persian: اصطلاح (fa)
• Polish: określenie (pl) n, termin (pl) m
• Portuguese: termo (pt) m
• Romanian: termen (ro), expresie (ro), cuvânt (ro)
• Russian: термин (ru) (términ) m
• Scots: tairm
• Spanish: término (es) m
• Swedish: term (sv) c, begrepp (sv) n, beteckning (sv) n
• Thai: คำ (kam), ศัพท์ (sàp)
• Turkish: terim (tr)

relations among people

• Dutch: voet (nl) m
• Estonian: suhe (et)
• Finnish: suhde (fi), välit (fi) pl
• Hungarian: viszony (hu)

• Lithuanian: terminas (lt) m
• Russian: отношение (ru) (otnošénije) n
• Serbo-Croatian: odnos (sh) m
• Swedish: fot (sv) c

part of a year

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學期 (cmn), 学期 (cmn) (xuéqī)

• Dutch: trimester (nl) n
• Estonian: poolaasta (et)
• Finnish: lukukausi (fi)
• French: trimestre (fr) m
• German: Trimester (de) n
• Greek: τρίμηνο (el) (trímino) n
• Hungarian: félév (hu), negyedév (hu), szemeszter (hu)

• Italian: trimestre (it) m
• Japanese: 学期 (ja) (がっき, gakki)
• Lithuanian: santykiai (lt) m pl
• Romanian: trimestru (ro)
• Russian: семестр (ru) (seméstr) m, (at school) четверть (ru) (čétvert’) f, (trimester) триместр (ru) (triméstr) m
• Serbo-Croatian: tromjesečje (sh) n, kvartal (sh) m
• Spanish: trimestre (es) m, semestre (es) m
• Swedish: termin (sv) c
• Welsh: tymor (cy) m

period of time, time limit

• Finnish: kausi (fi)
• German: Frist (de) f
• Greek: θητεία (el) (thiteía) f
• Irish: téarma (ga) m

• Portuguese: prazo (pt) m
• Russian: срок (ru) (srok) m
• Spanish: plazo (es) m
• Swedish: tidsfrist (sv) c, frist (sv) c
• Welsh: tymor (cy) m

one of the addends in a sum

• Dutch: term (nl) m
• Estonian: liidetav (et)
• Finnish: termi (fi)
• French: terme (fr) m
• German: Term (de) m
• Persian: جمله (fa)

• Portuguese: termo (pt) m
• Russian: слагаемое (ru) (slagájemoje) n
• Spanish: término (es) m
• Swedish: term (sv) c
• Turkish: terim (tr)

period in office or prison

• Finnish: toimikausi (fi)
• Greek: θητεία (el) (thiteía) f
• Jèrriais: gestion f

• Russian: срок полномочий (ru) (srok polnomóčij) m
• Swedish: mandatperiod (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Mandarin: 期限 (qīxiàn)

• Korean: 기간 (gigan)
• Lithuanian: trimestras, ketvirtis (~3 months), semestras (~4 months)

See also

• idiom
• lexeme
• listeme
• word

Verb

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.

External links

• term in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• term in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Dutch

Noun

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

Derived terms

• termsgewijs

Anagrams

• remt

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Swedish

Noun

term c

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

Declension

Declension of term

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

Related terms

• fackterm
• termbank
• terminologi

References