Term

In traditional logic, term came to mean a referring expression, but only through the Latin terminus - margin, (so that terms were 'terminal for analysis').
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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 term (mathematics) is a basic component of a mathematical expression. In the context of a polynomial it is a number and variables all multiplied together. Similarly, like terms are terms that have the same variables to the same exponents.
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 patent, the period during which it is enforceable - e.g. term of patent in the United States.
In contracts, the terms are the details of an agreement, often the amounts of money.
Term is also a nickname for the computer scientist Taweesup Apiwattanapong.
In politics it describes the time period in which a person serves in his position.

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