Term

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 debate theory

Law and finance

• Contractual term, a provision in a contract
  • Credit repayment terms
  • Payment terms, "net D" on a trade invoice
  • Purchase order, invoice terms more generally
• Term life insurance

Lengths of time

• Academic term, part of a year at school or university
• Term of office, a set period a person serves in an elected office
• Term of patent, the period of enforcement of patent rights
• Term of a pregnancy
• Prison sentence

Mathematics and physics

• Term (logic), a component of a logical or mathematical expression (not to be confused with term logic, or Aristotelian logic)
  • Ground term, a term with no variables
• Term (arithmetic), 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, a freely generated algebraic structure
• Term logic, an approach to logic that began with Aristotle and that was dominant until the advent of modern predicate logic
• Term symbol, a concept in quantum mechanics

Other uses

• Term (architecture) or terminal form, a human head and bust that continues as a square tapering pillar-like form
• Term (computers) or terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal
• Term, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring, an agency of the Indian Department of Telecommunications

See also

• Maxterms and minterms, in Boolean algebra
• Terme (disambiguation)
• Termeh, a type of textile
• Tern (disambiguation)