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- 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";
- the term of a patent, the period during which it is enforceable - e.g. term of patent in the US.
- In contracts, the terms are the details of an agreement, often the amounts of money.