English Dictionary

term

/tɜːm/

noun

That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus. / A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.

The term 'deadline' is used to describe the time limit for completing a task.

意味（1）

That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.

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

意味（2）

A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.

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.

意味（3）

Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.

Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.

意味（4）

Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.

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.]

意味（5）

(geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.

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

意味（6）

A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.

Algorithm is a term used in computer science.

意味（7）

Relations among people.

We are on friendly terms with each other.

意味（8）

Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.

意味（9）

The time during which legal courts are open.

意味（10）

Certain days on which rent is paid.

意味（11）

With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).

at term, preterm, postterm

意味（12）

(of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.

意味（13）

(archaic) A menstrual period.

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.

意味（14）

(mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.

All the terms of this sum cancel out.

意味（15）

(logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.

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

意味（16）

(astrology) 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.

意味（17）

(art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.

The pillers that haue bolſtered vp thoſe tearmes,

The pillers that haue bolſtered vp thoſe tearmes, Are falne in cluſters at my conquering feet.

意味（18）

(nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.