term

Noun

• (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

• the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
  • a healthy baby born at full term
    

• one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
  • the major term of a syllogism must occur twice
    

• any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
  • the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree
    

• (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
  • the contract set out the conditions of the lease
    
  • the terms of the treaty were generous
    

• a limited period of time
  • a prison term
    
  • he left school before the end of term
    

• a word or expression used for some particular thing
  • he learned many medical terms
    

Verb

• name formally or designate with a term

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  terminus , terminal figure , full term , condition