Word Finder - term

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

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"Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms."

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A chronological limitation or restriction.

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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.

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

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Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.

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A point, line, or superficies that limits.

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

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A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.

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"Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.

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Relations among people.

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We are on friendly terms with each other.

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Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.

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Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.

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He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.

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

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at term, preterm, postterm

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

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A menstrual period.

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

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All the terms of this sum cancel out.

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

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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.

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

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

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To phrase a certain way; to name or call.

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Born or delivered at term.

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term neonate

Praying she hadn't missed some term of the deal, she waited for his reaction.

I'm sure there's a Latin term for it.

The doctor says long term, it looks good.

I asked, confirming my lack of faith in the couple's long term relationship.

Who was it that used the term 'mature male'?

He takes precedence, Primus inter pares, of all the members, and is recognized as the official head of the Church during his term of office.

But with a strange want of delicacy, to use the mildest term, she made love at the same time to a young Venetian doctor whom she had called in, by name Pagello.

A new election must be called to fill the vacancy unless the unexpired term is less than one year.

The county supervision of public schools is vested in a county superintendent, who is elected for a term of four years.

Here we see the germs of Mendelssohn's Pragmatism, to use the now current term.

During his term of office he appeared in a case before the United States Supreme Court, where his knowledge of civil law so strongly impressed Edward Livingston, the secretary of state, who was himself an admirer of Roman Law, that he urged Legare to devote himself to the study of this subject with the hope that he might influence American law toward the spirit and philosophy and even the forms and processes of Roman jurisprudence.

Scarcity, or what we term scarcity, is a technological problem as well. 4.

His long term of service in the House, his leadership of his party on its floor, his candidacy for the speakership, and his recent election to the United States Senate, marked him out as the available man.

Firefly is a term popularly used for certain tropical American click-beetles (Pyrophorus), due to their power of emitting light.

The state supervision is vested in a state superintendent, who is elected for a term of four years.

Their peculiar business is expressed by the term" ruling elders."20 II.

A third radical method of redistribution is called land reform, which is actually a polite term for taking land from one person and giving it to another.

It will not be welfare (or, at least depending on how you define the term, it will not be perceived as welfare).

When I use a term like factory farm, I am envisioning not what these things are now but what they will be.

Long term, we will be better off manufacturing our food as opposed to growing it.

I don't know if the sun will shine on a long term relationship but Betsy is pleased to baby sit Molly while the romance dance is orchestrated.

David and Cynthia Dean had experienced little success in trying to secure a more formal arrangement for long term custody of Martha, managing only undocumented assignment as temporary foster parents.

A term, "techno-utopian," is often applied to people who believe a technology will bring about a perfect world.

It was in long term parking at Logan just as you guessed.

She thinks he was even the mayor for a term, way back before the war.

Beat Fitzgerald in the election and then start your term of office chasing down some ancient murder if you want.

She'd like to kill the...she used a term very uncommon to her usual vocabulary.

I mean long term.

If there had been a shred of doubt in her mind about who had sent him, it would have been erased with that term for a mountain lion.

The classic term "camelopard," probably introduced when these animals were brought from North Africa to the Roman amphitheatre, has fallen into complete disuse.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the term fermentation has now a much wider significance than when it was applied to such changes as the decomposition of must or wort with the production of carbon dioxide and alcohol.

At midwinter the 24-hour term is the largest, but near midsummer it is small compared to the 12-hour term.

Except at Karasjok, where the diurnal changes seem somewhat irregular, the relative amplitude of the 12-hour term is considerably greater in summer than in winter.

Chauveau points to the reduction in the 12-hour term as compared to the 24-hour term on the Eiffel Tower, and infers the practical disappearance of the former at no great height.

The Senate is composed (1910) of thirty members, chosen from fifteen districts for a term of four years, but one half the membership retires biennially.

For each school district there is a board of education consisting of a president and two commissioners, each elected for a term of four years, one commissioner every two years.

The term properly implies a clear polytheistic conception of gods in contrast with men, while it recognizes that some men cross the dividing line.

Dana, and now commonly used in scientific writings as a specific term for the real Prussian amber.

Flahault and Schroter,2 in defining the term habitat, appear to exclude all geographical factors.

At common la .w a lease for a term of years (other than a lease by a corporation) might be made by parol.

It often left them partially paralyzed, in wheelchairs or iron lungs (a term that's now all but forgotten and will likely send younger readers to Wikipedia).

A person of very high standing in our Brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our Order before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor.

Martha was unable to get by her natural compassion of the moment and look at a long term goal.

To take on this bastion takes balls, to use a crude term, unless there was a highly valuable prize as a reward.

This Julie-Howie business can't work, at least not in the long term.

The guests of longer term, the three remaining Dawkinses and Brandon Westlake, were all absent.

And then there was the baby she and Alex had lost before it reached full term.

Dean spent the afternoon busying himself with the chores of Bird Song, partially out of guilt for having dumped the morning duties on Fred and in part to take his mind off the ever-present feeling he'd caused long term or, heaven forbid, permanent damage to his seven-month marriage.

Drunk is a relative term.

I don't think anyone really knows, but bison is the correct term.