Term
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- In traditional logic, term came to mean a referring expression, but only through the Latin terminus - margin, (so that terms were 'terminal for analysis').
- in Project management - deadline
- Figures of speech and shorthands are called terms of language.
- Specialised terms are characterised as technical terms, or sometimes terms of art.
- A term (mathematics) is a basic component of a mathematical expression. In the context of a polynomial it is a number and variables all multiplied together. Similarly, like terms are terms that have the same variables to the same exponents.
- In type theory, "term" is used for the linguistic constructs.
- A term can refer to a period of time, for example:
- the term a person (e.g. a politician) serves in office;
- the term served in prison by a convicted criminal;
- an academic term – a number of weeks worth of study at a school or university
- the term of a mortgage;
- "long-term" and "short-term";
- the term of patent, the period during which it is enforceable - e.g. term of patent in the United States.
- In contracts, the terms are the details of an agreement, often the amounts of money.
- Term is also a nickname for the computer scientist Taweesup Apiwattanapong.