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term
  1. Limitation, restriction or regulation. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
  3. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
  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.
  9. (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
  10. (archaic) A menstrual period.
  11. (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.
  12. (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.
  13. (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.
  14. (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
  15. (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
  16. Synonyms:
  17. Examples:
    1. “The press was urged to use the term narcotic to refer to addictive drugs.”
      “Edgerton's study shows that pastoralists are more likely to express themselves in strong terms.”
      “The elected council members are set to begin their four-year term at the start of next month.”
terminal
  1. A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
  2. A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
  3. A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
  4. A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
  5. A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
  6. (electronics) the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
  7. An electric contact on a battery.
  8. (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
  9. (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
  10. (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
  11. (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
  12. (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptid.
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  14. Examples:
    1. “An airline was condemned today for charging a passenger the equivalent of half his airfare to take him from the airport terminal to the plane in a wheelchair.”
      “His eyes will suffer from staring all day at the computer terminal.”
      “Erin glanced around the pillar to see Nathan typing away at the terminal.”
termination
  1. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
  2. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
  3. An end in time; a conclusion.
  4. An end in space; an edge or limit.
  5. An outcome or result.
  6. The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
  7. (medicine) An induced abortion.
  8. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
  9. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “In some cases, both parties may mutually agree to the termination of the contract.”
      “Major setbacks led to the termination of the project by 1977.”
      “A cyborg assassin was sent back in time from the future to ensure the termination of Kyle Reese.”
terminator
  1. One who terminates or ends something.
  2. (biochemistry) A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
  3. (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
  4. (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a planet.
  5. (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans (after the 1984 film The Terminator).
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “At dusk, the terminator appeared on the Martian horizon, signalling the transition from daylight to darkness.”
      “Acyclovir, an acyclic guanosine analog, binds viral DNA polymerase, acting as a chain terminator and ending replication.”
      “The public is given a fearful impression with images of Frankenstein foods, killer tomatoes, and terminator seeds.”
terminus
  1. The end or final point of something.
  2. The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
  3. A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The plan will also incorporate the relocation of the college and its link with a new bus terminus with Keighley station.”
      “References cited in each chapter are listed at the end of that section, and not as a single compilation at the terminus of the book.”
      “They sit on the deck of the Red Inn, tucked inside the scorpion's tail at the town's terminus, the end of the Cape itself.”
termer
  1. (in combinations) Someone who is in a certain term
  2. (law) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
  3. (obsolete) One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practise tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Although we were a little disappointed when it turned out to be the same colour as our long termer!”
      “Gentlemen of the jury, the danger of the third termer was less in his probable election than in his sure but close defeat.”
      “In a word, he is the impression of the last term, and will be so until the coming of a new term or termer.”
terminology
  1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms, a system of specialized terms.
  2. The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I have no quarrel with your terminology except that it has connotations of teenage American witches in my mind.”
      “To my knowledge, that word does not exist in our terminology.”
      “The complete quadrilateral is nothing but a 4-line in Morley's terminology.”
terminative
  1. the terminative case
  2. a word in the terminative case
terminologist
  1. (translation studies) A person who studies and uses terminology, especially in professional translation project management.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The terminologist drafts definitions and recommends the adoption of new terms for standardization purposes.”
      “Recommendations on terms to be used in a given context remain the domain of the terminologist.”
      “Kara Warburton is IBM's chief terminologist and the chair of the Localization Industry Standards Association's terminology group.”
term
  1. One whose employment has been terminated
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The press was urged to use the term narcotic to refer to addictive drugs.”
      “Edgerton's study shows that pastoralists are more likely to express themselves in strong terms.”
      “The elected council members are set to begin their four-year term at the start of next month.”
term
  1. (computing) terminal (computer program that emulates a physical terminal)
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The press was urged to use the term narcotic to refer to addictive drugs.”
      “Edgerton's study shows that pastoralists are more likely to express themselves in strong terms.”
      “The elected council members are set to begin their four-year term at the start of next month.”
terminant
  1. (obsolete) termination; ending
terminality
terminableness
  1. The quality of being terminable.
termonology
  1. Dated form of terminology.
termor
  1. (law) Alternative form of termer
  2. Examples:
    1. “I don't intend it to be long termor punitive but I think you need to learn the error of your ways.”
      “The length of the termor when it fallswillmake no difference.”
terminologists
  1. plural of terminologist
  2. Examples:
    1. “The tasks of terminologists vary from updating single term records to projects on certain subject fields.”
      “In other words, you need to standardize your IT terminology, and you hire terminologists to do that for you.”
      “The analysis of the term translations below is aimed at revealing which strategies the Lithuanian terminologists use for translation of a chosen group of English legal terms.”
terminations
  1. plural of termination
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “That includes when I have had to advise employers about terminations of employment.”
      “Just two years ago 17 women in Portugal, where abortion is still illegal, were prosecuted for having terminations in a backstreet clinic.”
      “However, most kyanite occurs as bladed crystals without well-developed terminations.”
terminatives
  1. plural of terminative
terminologies
  1. plural of terminology
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We need a distributed way, he said, to provide organizing terms and terminologies and deploy them on the Web.”
      “So I can illustrate those mindsets by using more familiar western terminologies and that sort of thing.”
      “So for all you ladies out there with a need to know, here are some of football's general terminologies explained.”
termonologies
  1. plural of termonology
terminators
  1. plural of terminator
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Techniques intended to monitor foetal health became terminators of the female foetus.”
      “Active SCSI terminators are available at any PC store that sells SCSI devices.”
      “By now the entire band of survivors, including some new recruits, are regular gun toting, axe wielding, shoot 'em, chop 'em up zombie terminators.”
termini
  1. plural of terminus
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The visibility of such people in London railway termini or at suburban stations made them very noticeable to contemporaries.”
      “The proteins encoded by these genes share a short region of homology at their amino termini.”
      “To appreciate the usefulness of the atlas, the reader needs to follow particular railroad routes between important termini.”
terminals
  1. plural of terminal
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Bring all cables from various jacks into the junction box and connect the wires under the appropriately colored terminals.”
      “The newer 029 keypunches were used by graduate students while undergraduates were limited to using the older 026 keypunch terminals.”
      “Users could access this centralized computer only by means of dumb terminals.”
terminuses
  1. plural of terminus
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The virus has spread from airports and railway terminuses to the major cities now.”
      “They target busy areas such as bus terminuses, shopping complexes, government hospitals and those close to the Collectorate.”
      “Evaporation creates a curvature in the water menisci within the cellulosic microfibril pores of cell walls and at the outlets of the xylem terminuses.”
termers
  1. plural of termer
termors
  1. plural of termor
terms
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