term
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tûrm, IPA(key): /tɜːm/
- (US) enPR: tûrm, IPA(key): /tɝm/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(r)m
NounEdit
term (plural terms)
- Limitation, restriction or regulation. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
- Francis Bacon
- Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries.
- Francis Bacon
- (geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
- A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
- A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
- "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
- Relations among people.
- We are on friendly terms with each other.
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1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
- Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
- (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 ).
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Sir W. Hamilton
- The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
- Sir W. Hamilton
- (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
- Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
- (computing) A terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal.
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Knowles to this entry?)
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TranslationsEdit
limitation, restriction or regulation
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word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge
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relations among people
part of a year
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period of time, time limit
one of the addends in a sum or in another mathematical operation
period in office or prison
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VerbEdit
term (third-person singular simple present terms, present participle terming, simple past and past participle termed)
- To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
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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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2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
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External linksEdit
- term in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- term in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
AlbanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From ter.
NounEdit
term m (indefinite plural terma, definite singular terma, definite plural termat)
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PronunciationEdit
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NounEdit
term m (plural termen, diminutive termpje n)
- term; A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
- (mathematics) term; One of the addends in a sum
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Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin terminus, via French terme and English term
NounEdit
term m (definite singular termen, indefinite plural termer, definite plural termene)
- a term (word or phrase)
ReferencesEdit
- “term” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin terminus, via French terme and English term
NounEdit
term m (definite singular termen, indefinite plural termar, definite plural termane)
- a term (word or phrase)
ReferencesEdit
- “term” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
term c
- a term[1] (a well-defined word or phrase, in a terminology)
- (mathematics) a term[2] (an operand in addition or subtraction)
- singular of termer (“thermae, Roman baths”) (a facility for bathing in ancient Rome)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of term | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | term | termen | termer | termerna |
| Genitive | terms | termens | termers | termernas |
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ term in Rikstermbanken
- ^ term in Rikstermbanken