| duration | | |
| n. (time) | 1. continuance, duration | the period of time during which something continues. |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ clocking | the time taken to traverse a measured course.; "it was a world record clocking" |
| ~ longueur | a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art). |
| ~ residence time | the period of time spent in a particular place. |
| ~ span | the complete duration of something.; "the job was finished in the span of an hour" |
| ~ stint, stretch | an unbroken period of time during which you do something.; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary" |
| ~ time scale | an arrangement of events used as a measure of duration.; "on the geological time scale mankind has existed but for a brief moment" |
| ~ note value, time value, value | (music) the relative duration of a musical note. |
| ~ rule | the duration of a monarch's or government's power.; "during the rule of Elizabeth" |
| n. (time) | 2. continuance, duration | the property of enduring or continuing in time. |
| ~ time | the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. duration, length | continuance in time.; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required" |
| ~ temporal property | a property relating to time. |
| ~ longness | duration as an extension. |
| ~ protraction, lengthiness, prolongation, continuation | the consequence of being lengthened in duration. |
| ~ endlessness | the property of being (or seeming to be) without end. |
| ~ shortness | the property of being of short temporal extent.; "the shortness of air travel time" |
| ~ brevity, briefness, transience | the attribute of being brief or fleeting. |
| ~ permanence, permanency | the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration. |
| ~ impermanence, impermanency | the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations. |
| term | | |
| n. (communication) | 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. |
| n. (time) | 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. |
| ~ incumbency, tenure, term of office | the term during which some position is held. |
| n. (communication) | 3. condition, 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" |
| n. (cognition) | 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. |
| n. (communication) | 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. |
| n. (time) | 6. full term, 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). |
| n. (artifact) | 7. term, terminal figure, terminus | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome. |
| ~ 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" |
| v. (communication) | 8. term | name formally or designate with a term. |
| ~ call, name | assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to.; "They named their son David"; "The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader" |
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