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Term   /tərm/   Listen
Term

noun
1.
A word or expression used for some particular thing.
2.
A limited period of time.  "He left school before the end of term"
3.
(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement.  Synonym: condition.  "The terms of the treaty were generous"
4.
Any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial.
5.
One of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition.
6.
The end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent.  Synonym: full term.
7.
(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.  Synonyms: terminal figure, terminus.
verb
(past & past part. termed; pres. part. terming)
1.
Name formally or designate with a term.



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"Term" Quotes from Famous Books



... a term signifying velocity, and this is generally accompanied by a hollow bullet which is intended to serve two purposes— to lighten the bullet, and therefore to reduce the work of the powder, and to secure an expansion and smash-up of the lead upon impact with the animal. I contend ...
— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker
... room in the room in his gray Confederate coat, shorn of the buttons; also my two brothers, Custis and Fitzhugh, both of whom had been generals in the Confederate Army; so there was quite a laugh over the term CIVILIAN. I have already mentioned how particular my father was about answering all letters. It was a great tax on his time, and some of them must have been a trial to his temper. The following ...
— Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee • Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son
... Monroe, did his work quickly and well, and his suggestions for organization were promptly adopted and put into practice by the Government. Meanwhile he had written to "benevolent persons in Boston," setting forth the instant need of the negroes for clothing and for teachers, meaning by the term "teachers" quite as much superintendents of labor as instructors in the rudiments of learning. The response to this appeal was immediate. An "Educational Commission for Freedmen"[1] was organized in Boston, New York and Philadelphia ...
— Letters from Port Royal - Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) • Various
... immediately after the Whitsunday term a year or two ago, a female teacher asked her class of little ones to be sure all of them and bring their new addresses to her on the morrow, as these were required for the re-adjustment of the register. "Please, mem," blurted out a wee fellow in petticoats, "my ...
— Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories - A Book for Bairns and Big Folk • Robert Ford
... "I won't dare look at a frying pan again this week, and my term ends with the week," he said, ...
— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose


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