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)