Usually means: Duration or condition in agreement.
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  1. term: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. term: Merriam-Webster
  3. term, term, term: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. term: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. term: Collins English Dictionary
  6. term: Vocabulary.com
  7. Term, term: Wordnik
  8. -term, term: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. term: Wiktionary
  10. term: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. term: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. term: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. term, term: Dictionary.com
  14. term (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. term: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Term (architecture), Term (computers), Term (first-order logic), Term (language), Term (logic), Term (mathematics), Term (time), Term: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Term: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. term: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. term: Rhymezone
  20. term, term (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. term: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. TERM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. term: FreeDictionary.org
  24. term: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. term: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. term: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  3. term-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. term: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. term: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Term: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  9. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  10. term: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Term: Investopedia
  13. Term (language), term: Legal dictionary
  14. term: Financial dictionary
  15. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  16. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TERM: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Term (language), term: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. term: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. Term (language), term: Medical dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TERM: Acronym Finder
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  3. term: Idioms

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Term: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. term: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  4. term, term, term: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. Term: Physic and Astronomy Glossary
  6. term: UNCChem Glossary
  7. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. term: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
noun:  A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
noun:  Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
noun:  Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
noun:  (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
noun:  A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
noun:  Relations among people.
noun:  Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
noun:  Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
noun:  The time during which legal courts are open.
noun:  Certain days on which rent is paid.
noun:  With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymically) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
noun:  (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
noun:  (archaic) A menstrual period.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
noun:  (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
verb:  (transitive) To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
adjective:  (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term.
noun:  (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To terminate one's employment
noun:  One whose employment has been terminated

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