At a British school, each year is divided into three terms. At an American school, it is divided into four terms.
At a British college or university, each year is also divided into three terms.
At an American college or university, it is divided into two semesters, three trimesters, or four quarters.
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Noun | 1. | term - a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms" word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" referent - something that refers; a term that refers to another term |
2. | term - a limited period of time; "a prison term"; "he left school before the end of term" period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" prison term, sentence, time - the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail" academic session, academic term, school term, session - the time during which a school holds classes; "they had to shorten the school term" midterm - middle of an academic term or a political term in office | |
3. | 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" plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day" agreement, understanding - the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers" | |
4. | term - any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree" quantity - the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable | |
5. | term - one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition; "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice" subject - (logic) the first term of a proposition grammatical constituent, constituent - (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction predicate - (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates" referent - the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate relatum - a term in a proposition that is related to the referent of the proposition proposition - (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false categorem, categoreme - a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition; "names are called categorems" major term - the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion minor term - the term in a syllogism that is the subject of the conclusion middle term - the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion | |
6. | term - the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term" point in time, point - an instant of time; "at that point I had to leave" gestation, gestation period - the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans) | |
7. | ![]() statue - a sculpture representing a human or animal architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" | |
Verb | 1. | term - name formally or designate with a term |