(n.) That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
(n.) The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life.
(n.) In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.
(n.) A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
(n.) A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration
(n.) The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years.
(n.) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation.
(n.) The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes.
(n.) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
(n.) A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term.
(n.) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.
(n.) A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd.
(n.) The menses.
(n.) Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions.
(n.) In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents.
(n.) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
(n.) To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(3) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(4) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(5) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(6) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(7) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(8) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(9) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(10) Binding data for both ligands to the enzyme yielded nonlinear Scatchard plots that analyze in terms of four negatively cooperative binding sites per enzyme tetramer.
(11) Arthrotomy with continuous irrigation appears to be more effective in decreasing long-term residual effects than arthrotomy alone.
(12) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(13) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(14) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(15) A novel prostaglandin E2 analogue, CL 115347, can be administered transdermally on a long-term basis.
(16) Optimum rates of acetylene reduction in short-term assays occurred at 20% O2 (0.2 atm (1 atm = 101.325 kPa] in the gas phase.
(17) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(18) But that's just it - they need to be viable in the long term.
(19) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(20) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
Ultimatum
Definition:
(n.) A final proposition, concession, or condition; especially, the final propositions, conditions, or terms, offered by either of the parties in a diplomatic negotiation; the most favorable terms a negotiator can offer, the rejection of which usually puts an end to the hesitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) made clear that it would stick to an ultimatum it gave Morsi on Monday that urged the embattled president to respond to a wave of mass protests within 48 hours or face an intervention which would in effect subsume his government.
(2) I wonder if this form of ultimatum, which Mr. Winston condemns, is likely to increase now that this operation is performed under a fee-for-service system?
(3) Delivering ultimatums is a sorry way to go about a ministry, but we will hang on by our fingertips, sad and furious in equal measure, until the authority of women and men is accepted by the church we love but, at times like this, find impossible to defend.
(4) Egypt's president, Mohamed Morsi , vowed to protect his presidency with his life on Tuesday night, hours before an ultimatum from the leader of Egypt's armed forces is due to expire.
(5) The tiny republic said it would consign the Yugoslav federation to history unless its ultimatum was met within days.
(6) "We would like to propose to the Russian side that before issuing ultimatums to a sovereign and independent state, it turn its attention to the disastrous conditions and complete powerlessness of its own national minorities, including the Ukrainian one," read the statement.
(7) Merkel and Sarkozy, in issuing their ultimatum to Greece on Wednesday night, acknowledged that is possible for a country to leave the eurozone.
(8) Martin Rowson on the Greek crisis negotiations – cartoon Read more “After five months of hard negotiations our partners, unfortunately, ended up making a proposal that was an ultimatum towards Greek democracy and the Greek people,” he said in a national address, “an ultimatum at odds with the founding principles and values of Europe , the values of our common European construction.” The leader, who only hours earlier had rejected the proposed reforms after several days of high-stakes talks in Brussels, said Greeks now faced a “historic responsibility” to respond to the ultimatum.
(9) The warships remained anchored in the Crimean port of Sevastopol early on Tuesday, a day after Ukrainian authorities claimed that Russian forces had issued an ultimatum for the ships to surrender or be seized.
(10) One nicotine-free boyfriend issued me with an ultimatum to quit: "I love you and I just want to know that you won't die after we get married."
(11) Merkel's chief of staff, Ronald Pofalla, who is responsible for overseeing the German intelligence services, signalled that Berlin had delivered an ultimatum to Washington.
(12) Yet the moment we proposed the benchmarks, canvassed support for an ultimatum, there was an immediate recourse to the language of the veto.
(13) UPDATE: The Russian defence ministry denies any such ultimatum .
(14) He recently claimed that Bon Jovi offered him an ultimatum: “Join or leave.” “I said I wanted a break.
(15) Leaders in Brussels spoke of the worst crisis in Europe since the second world war, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) set ultimatums before the 17 countries of the single currency, and international ratings agencies classified the bailout terms for Greece as a likely default.
(16) March 3, 2014 UPDATE: Oksana Grytsenko called a Ukrainian navy spokesman, who told her “as far as I know” an ultimatum “has been voiced”, but he referred to a different time for the ultimatum than originally reported by Interfax, which – conflicting times for the assigned zero-hour – would seem to undercut the whole point of an ultimatum.
(17) Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who will chair next week’s Luxembourg meeting, delivered an ultimatum to Athens, warning it would be left “alone” if it did not meet the creditors’ terms for securing remaining bailout funds.
(18) Then, in April, the men returned following Chowdhury's ultimatum.
(19) The whole national health system has undergone cost cuts to comply with an ultimatum from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; otherwise, sorely needed dollar loans would not be forthcoming.
(20) Addressing parliament ahead of the crucial vote, Tsipras, who succumbed to the demands of foreign lenders earlier this month – accepting an ultimatum to find €12bn of savings, by far the heaviest austerity package to date – conceded that his government had been defeated.