Noun

(uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.

(countable) An idea or a plan offered.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}

(countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.

(countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.

(countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion.

(countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.

(countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.

A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.

the propositions of Wyclif and Huss

* Jeremy Taylor

Some persons change their propositions according as their temporal necessities or advantages do turn.

(poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.

Noun

(en noun)

Limitation, restriction or regulation. (rfex)

Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.

That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

* Francis Bacon

Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms , or boundaries.

(geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.

A line is the term''' of a superficies, and a superficies is the '''term of a solid.

A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.

"Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.

Relations among people.

* , chapter=22

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.

Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.

(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.

(logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.

* Sir W. Hamilton

The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.

(architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.

Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.

(computing) A terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal.

(of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.

(astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.

(archaic) A menstrual period.

* 1660 , (Samuel Pepys), Diary

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.

(nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.