A Term

1. That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.
2. A chronological limitation or restriction.
3. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
4. (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
5. A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
6. Relations among people.
7. Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
8. Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.

1. The time during which legal courts are open.
2. Certain days on which rent is paid.

9. With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
10. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
11. (archaic) A menstrual period. quotations ▼
12. (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.
13. (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.
14. (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.
15. (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. [from 17th c.]
16. (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.