Term

• Terminology, context-specific nouns or compound words • Technical term (or term of art), used by specialists in a field • Scientific terminology, used by scientists • Term (argumentation), part of an argument in debate theory ==Law and finance==

• Contractual term, a provision in a contract • Credit repayment terms • Payment terms, "net D" on a trade invoice • Purchase order, invoice terms more generally • Term life insurance ==Lengths of time==

• Academic term, part of a year at school or university • Term of office, a set period a person serves in an elected office • Term of patent, the period of enforcement of patent rights • Term of a pregnancy • Prison sentence ==Mathematics and physics==

• Term (logic), a component of a logical or mathematical expression (not to be confused with term logic, or Aristotelian logic) • Ground term, a term with no variables • Term (arithmetic), or addend, an operand to the addition operator • Term of a summation, a polynomial, or a series, a special case of a summand • Term algebra, a freely generated algebraic structure • Term logic, an approach to logic that began with Aristotle and that was dominant until the advent of modern predicate logic • Term symbol, a concept in quantum mechanics ==Other uses==

• Term (architecture) or terminal form, a human head and bust that continues as a square tapering pillar-like form • Term (computers) or terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal • Term, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran • Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring, an agency of the Indian Department of Telecommunications ==See also==