meaning of term

1. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
2. The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life.
3. In universities, schools, etc. , a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.
4. A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
5. A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration
6. The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years.
7. A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation.
8. The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes.
9. The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
10. A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term.
11. A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n. , 2 and 3.
12. A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd.
13. The menses.
14. Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions.
15. In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents.
16. A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
17. To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate.
18. TERM 1. A program by Michael OReilly com. au> for people running Unix who have Internet access via a dial-up connection, and who dont have access to SLIP, or PPP, or simply prefer a more lightweight protocol. TERM does end-to-end error-correction, compression and mulplexing across serial links. This means you can upload and download files as the same time youre reading your news, and can run X clients on the other side of your modem link, all without needing SLIP or PPP. Current version: 1. 15. ftp://tartarus. uwa. edu. au/pub/oreillym/term/term115. tar. gz 2. Technology Enabled Relationship Management.
19. 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

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