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Definition of "term" []

  • A limited period of time. (noun)
  • A period of time that is assigned to a person to serve: a six-year term as senator. See Synonyms at period. (noun)
  • A period when a school or court is in session. (noun)
  • A point in time at which something ends; termination: an apprenticeship nearing its term. (noun)
  • The end of a normal gestation period: carried the fetus to term. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "term" in a sentence
  • "Even if it should be allowed that the series has no first term, but has originated _ab œterno_, it must always at each instant have a _last term_; the series, as a whole, can not be infinite, and hence can not, as Kant claims it can, realize in its wholeness unconditioned totality."
  • "The object to relate to.) (required) {{{3}}} (int) (required) string $term The slug or id of the term. array"
  • "The label term tradizionale, “traditional,” is reserved for the original version."