noun

• (geometry, archaic) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
  "A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid."
• (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
• (archaic) A menstrual period.
  "My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again."
• (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
  "All the terms of this sum cancel out."

verb

• (transitive) To phrase a certain way; to name or call.
  "Abstraction or prescision ought to be carefully distinguished from two other modes of mental separation, which may be termed discrimination and dissociation."

adj

• (medicine, colloquial) Born or delivered at term.
  "term neonate"

noun

• (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.