Term

Term may refer to:

Language

 * 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
 * Addend, or term, 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