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Topic: term
Definition:

  • a word or expression used for some particular thing
  • "he learned many medical terms" a limited period of time
  • "a prison term"
  • "he left school before the end of term" (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
  • "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"
  • "the terms of the treaty were generous" any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
  • "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree" one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
  • "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice" the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
  • "a healthy baby born at full term" (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar
  • originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome name formally or designate with a term

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    • Resources:

    U. S. Term Limits
    National activist organization which asks candidates for the U.S. Congress to sign a pledge limiting themselves to no more than three terms in the House or two terms in the Senate. [Relies on imagemaps for navigation.]
    http://www.termlimits.org/

    U.S. Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network
    A collaborative effort involving more than 1100 scientists and students investigating ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales. The network promotes synthesis and comparative research across sites and ecosystems and among other related national and international research programs.
    http://lternet.edu/