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Term
Figures of speech and shorthands are called
terms of language
.
Specialised terms are characterised as
technical terms
, or sometimes
terms of art
.
A
mathematical term
is a basic component of a
mathematical
expression
.
In traditional
logic
,
term
came to mean a referring expression, but only through the Latin
terminus
(so that terms were 'terminal for analysis').
In
type theory
, "
term
" is used for the
linguistic
constructs
.
A
term
can refer to a
period
of
time
, for example:
the
term
served in office by an
incumbent
;
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
".
In
contracts
, the
terms
are the details of an
agreement
, often the amounts of
money
.
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