Term

Noun

 * 1) A limitation, restriction or regulation.
 * terms and conditions
 * 1) A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
 * 2) Relations among people.
 * We are on friendly terms with each other.
 * 1) A part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year in Britain; Michaelmas term, Lent term or Easter term, the equivalent to the American semester.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1) a duration of a set length; a 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
 * 1)  a terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal
 * 2)  the maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force
 * 3)  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

Derived terms

 * terms and conditions
 * blanket term
 * come to terms
 * umbrella term
 * collective term
 * long-term
 * midterm
 * short-term
 * term logic
 * term limit
 * term of art
 * at term

Related terms

 * terminal
 * terminate

Verb

 * 1) To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.

Adjectives for Term
(General)

stringent; mechanistic; concrete; triumphant; remunerative; inexorable; appreciative; uncompromising; precise; brilliant; purposed; mysterious;   familiar;   interchangeable; plain; warm; ambiguous; proffered; unexpired; dubious; unhallowed; disastrous; convincing; abusive; modest; sudden; limited; strong; vile; festival; subsequent; equivalent; respectable; growling; impending; vague; hyperbolical; personal; unqualified; successful; downright; specific; generous; explicit; glowing; wrathful; conciliatory; budget; honorable; obscure; silent; rash; affectionate; convertible; installment; speedy; anagogic; emphatic; disapproving; attractive; original; indefinite; complied; gross; measured; absolute; uncal-culating; following; misapplied; extravagant; equal; silken; liberal; uncouth; synonymous; nattering; satisfactory; hyperboli-cal; chameleon; advantageous; immense; tedious; convenient; endurable; psychoanalytic; unreasonable; generic; relative; intimate; eloquent; terrible; tender; fashionable; amicable; equivocal; favorable; complimentary; penitentiary; recollected; degrading; much-abused; express; comprehensive; antiquated; impressive; feeble; technical; essential; respectful; fundamental; abominable; unmistakable; graphic; energetic; monetary; figurative; opprobrious; unmistakable.

Verbs for Term
(Words)

accentuate—; amplify—; analyze—; apply —; clarify—; cloak in—s; clothe ins; coin—; condense—; confine—; corrupt—; couch in—; define—; derive—; employ—; illustrate—; interpret—; object to—; para¬phrase—; stilt—; stress—; voice ins; — bewilders; —colors; —confuses ; —degenerates ; —disgraces; —embraces ; —emphasizes; —expresses; —implies; —insinuates; —veils.

Adverbs for Term
vulgarly; improperly; euphemistically; confidentially; appropriately; aptly; irrelevantly; sneeringly; jestingly; satirically; equivocally; degradingly; technically; graphically; figuratively; opprobriously; affectionately; modestly;  wrathfully;  ambiguously; hyperbolically.

Thesaurus
Z, abundant year, academic year, adjectival phrase, administration, agree, annum, antonym, apodosis, appellation, arrange, articles, articulation, as regards, assumptions, balance, baptize, basis, bissextile year, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, calendar month, calendar year, call, catastrophe, ceasing, ceiling, century, cessation, christen, chronology, circumscription, clause, clauses, coda, come to terms, common year, compass, compromise, concerning, conclusion, condition, conditions, confine, confines, construction, consummation, continuity, continuous tenure, course, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, cutoff, cutoff point, day, deadline, death, decade, decease, decennary, decennium, defective year, define, delimitation, denominate, denouement, designate, designation, destination, destiny, detail, determinant, division line, doom, dub, duration, duree, effect, end, end point, ending, enlistment, entitle, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, exception, expiration, expression, extremity, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, fiscal year, floor, footing, fortnight, free form, frontier, glosseme, go, goal, headed group, hedge, high-water mark, hitch, homograph, homonym, homophone, hour, icon, identify, idiom, idiotism, in relation to, incumbency, interface, interval, item, izzard, label, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, lastingness, latter end, leap year, lexeme, lexical form, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, linguistic form, locution, logos, low-water mark, lower limit, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, manner of speaking, march, mark, mete, metonym, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minimum free form, minute, moment, monosyllable, month, moon, morpheme, name, nickname, nominate, noun phrase, omega, paragraph, particular, payment, payoff, peculiar expression, period, peroration, phase, phrasal idiom, phrase, point, polysyllable, position, prison term, provision, provisions, proviso, psychological time, qualification, quarter, quietus, quinquennium, rates, reconcile, regarding, regular year, relating to, relations, relationship, relative to, reservation, resolution, resting place, schedule, second, semasiological unit, sememe, semester, sentence, session, set phrase, settle, sidereal year, sign, signifiant, significant, sitting, solar year, space, space-time, span, specify, spell, standard phrase, standing, start, starting line, starting point, stint, stipulation, stipulations, stoppage, stopping place, stretch, string, strings, style, sun, swan song, syllable, symbol, synonym, syntactic structure, tag, target date, tense, tenure, terminal, terminal date, termination, terminus, terms, the future, the past, the present, threshold, tide, time, time allotment, timebinding, title, token, tour, trimester, turn, turn of expression, turn of phrase, twelvemonth, type, upper limit, usage, utterance, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, verbum, vocable, way of speaking, week, weekday, while, windup, with regard to, word, word-group, year

Etymology
< terme: <  terme: <  terminus:

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 條件, 条件
 * Czech:
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 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian: terminas (as time limit)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: условие
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: షరతు (sharathu), నిబంధన (nibandhana)


 * Arabic: اصطلاح
 * Armenian: տերմին,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 術語, 术语
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: termino
 * Estonian: mõiste,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: szakkifejezés
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 用語, 言葉
 * Lithuanian: sąlyga
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: اصطلاح
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: tairm
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai: (kam),  (sàp)
 * Turkish:


 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: väleissä


 * Hungarian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Russian: отношение
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 學期, 学期
 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: poolaasta
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:, negyedév,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 学期
 * Lithuanian:
 * Russian: семестр, четверть,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: kausi
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Russian: срок
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: liidetav
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
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 * Greek:
 * Russian: срок полномочий


 * Swedish: mandatperiod


 * : 期限 (qīxiàn)


 * : 기간 (gigan)
 * : trimestras, ketvirtis (~3 months), semestras (~4 months)

Noun

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

Anagrams

 * remt

Noun

 * 1) a term (a well-defined word or phrase, in a terminology)
 * 2)  a term (an operand in addition or subtraction)
 * 3) singular of termer: (a facility for bathing in ancient Rome)

Related terms

 * fackterm
 * termbank
 * terminologi