term
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Is term a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.Examples: "A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid."archaic
2. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
3. (archaic) A menstrual period.Examples: "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."archaic
4. (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.Examples: "All the terms of this sum cancel out."; "One only term is odd in ( 12; 3; 4 )."
5. (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.Examples: "The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes."
6. (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.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To phrase a certain way; to name or call.Examples: "Abstraction or prescision ought to be carefully distinguished from two other modes of mental separation, which may be termed discrimination and dissociation."; "The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight."Synonyms: describe as, designate, dub, name, refer to, denominatetransitive
adj (English)
1. (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term.Examples: "term neonate"colloquialnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.informal
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive, informal) To terminate someone's employment.ambitransitiveinformal
2. (transitive, informal, of an online moderator) To delete someone's account.informaltransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary