term

Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries.

The term of a lease agreement is the period of time during which the lease is effective, and may be fixed, periodic, or of indefinite duration.

Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.

Q: What are your company's terms? A: Net thirty, cash or check. [This answer means that the net total must be paid within 30 days; see Net D.]

A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.

"Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.

We are on friendly terms with each other.

at term, preterm, postterm

My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again.

All the terms of this sum cancel out.

The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.

The pillers that haue bolſtered vp thoſe tearmes,

Are falne in cluſters at my conquering feet.