Term may refer to:

Language

Terminology Terminology is a group of specialized words and respective meanings in a particular field, and also the study of such terms and their use; the latter meaning is also known as terminology science. A ''term'' is a word, Compound (linguistics), com ...

, context-specific nouns or compound words **

Technical term Jargon, or technical language, is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity. Jargon is normally employed in a particular communicative context and may not be well understood outside that context. The conte ...

(or ''term of art''), used by specialists in a field *** Scientific terminology, used by scientists * Term (argumentation), part of an argument in debate theory

Law and finance

Contractual term A contractual term is "any provision forming part of a contract". Each term gives rise to a contractual obligation, the breach of which may give rise to litigation. Not all terms are stated expressly and some terms carry less legal gravity as ...

, a provision in a contract **

Credit Credit (from Latin verb ''credit'', meaning "one believes") is the trust which allows one party to provide money or resources to another party wherein the second party does not reimburse the first party immediately (thereby generating a debt) ...

repayment terms ** Payment terms, "net ''D''" on a trade invoice **

Purchase order A purchase order, often abbreviated to PO, is a commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services required. It is used to control the purchasing of products and services ...

, invoice terms more generally * Term life insurance

Lengths of time

Academic term An academic term (or simply term) is a portion of an academic year during which an educational institution holds Class (education), classes. The school timetable, schedules adopted vary widely. Common terms such as semester, trimester, and quarte ...

, part of a year at school or university *

Term of office A term of office, electoral term, or parliamentary term is the length of time a person serves in a particular elected office. In many jurisdictions there is a defined limit on how long terms of office may be before the officeholder must be subjec ...

, a set period a person serves in an elected office * Term of patent, the period of enforcement of patent rights *Term of a

pregnancy Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring gestation, gestates inside a woman's uterus. A multiple birth, multiple pregnancy involves more than one offspring, such as with twins. Conception (biology), Conception usually occurs ...

Prison sentence In criminal law, a sentence is the punishment for a crime ordered by a trial court after conviction in a criminal procedure, normally at the conclusion of a trial. A sentence may consist of imprisonment, a fine, or other sanctions. Sentences for ...

Mathematics and physics

Term (logic) In mathematical logic, a term denotes a mathematical object while a formula denotes a mathematical fact. In particular, terms appear as components of a formula. This is analogous to natural language, where a noun phrase refers to an object and a wh ...

, a component of a logical or mathematical expression (not to be confused with term logic, or Aristotelian logic) **

Ground term In mathematical logic, a ground term of a formal system is a term that does not contain any variables. Similarly, a ground formula is a formula that does not contain any variables. In first-order logic with identity with constant symbols a ...

, a term with no variables *

Term (arithmetic) Addition (usually signified by the plus symbol, +) is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic, the other three being subtraction, multiplication, and division. The addition of two whole numbers results in the total or '' sum'' of th ...

, or addend, an operand to the addition operator **Term of a summation, a polynomial, or a series, a special case of a summand *

Term algebra Term may refer to: Language *Terminology, context-specific nouns or compound words **Technical term (or ''term of art''), used by specialists in a field ***Scientific terminology, used by scientists *Term (argumentation), part of an argument in d ...

, a freely generated algebraic structure *

Term logic In logic and formal semantics, term logic, also known as traditional logic, syllogistic logic or Aristotelian logic, is a loose name for an approach to formal logic that began with Aristotle and was developed further in ancient history mostly by ...

, an approach to logic that began with Aristotle and that was dominant until the advent of modern predicate logic *

Term symbol In atomic physics, a term symbol is an abbreviated description of the total spin and orbital angular momentum quantum numbers of the electrons in a multi-electron atom. So while the word ''symbol'' suggests otherwise, it represents an actual ''valu ...

, a concept in quantum mechanics

Other uses

Term (architecture) In Classical architecture and in art a term or terminal figure (: terms or termini) is a human head and bust that continues down as a square tapering pillar-like form. It is usually distinguished from a herm, which has a head and shoulders only,L ...

or terminal form, a human head and bust that continues as a square tapering pillar-like form *

Term (computers) A terminal emulator, or terminal application, is a Application software, computer program that Emulator, emulates a video Computer terminal#Dumb terminals, terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a Comma ...

or terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal *

Term, Iran Term (; also known as Term Şaḩrā) is a village in Kolijan Rostaq-e Sofla Rural District, in the Central District of Sari County, Mazandaran Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persi ...

, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran *

Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring (TERM), formerly known as Vigilance Telecom Monitoring (VTM), is the vigilance and monitoring wing of the Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT). TERM is made up of 34 Cells in India's 22 telec ...

, an agency of the Indian Department of Telecommunications

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