Term vs Standard - What's the difference?
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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
(geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
Relations among people.
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, title= 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
(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
(nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
# A level of quality or attainment.
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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;
# Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
#* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
# A musical work of established popularity.
# A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
# The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
#* (John Arbuthnot) (1667-1735)
# A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
A vertical pole with something at its apex.
# An object supported in an upright position, such as a .
#* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, chapter=Foreword, title= # The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
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# One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
# Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
# A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
#* Sir W. Temple
# The sheth of a plough.
A manual transmission vehicle.
(botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
(shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
A large drinking cup.
Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
(of a tree or shrub) Growing on an erect stem of full height.
Having recognized excellence or authority.
Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
(not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
As normally supplied (not optional).
As nouns the difference between term and standard
is that term is limitation, restriction or regulation while standard is a principle or example or measure used for comparison.As a verb term
is to phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.As an adjective standard is
falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.term
English
(wikipedia term)Noun
(en noun)- Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms , or boundaries.
- A line is the term''' of a superficies, and a superficies is the '''term of a solid.
- "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
- The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
- 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.
Derived terms
{{der3, at term , blanket term , collective term , come to terms , long-term , midterm , short-term , term limit , term logic , term of art , terms and conditions , umbrella term}}See also
* idiom * lexeme * listeme * wordVerb
(en verb)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}
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English
Noun
(en noun)- the court, which used to be the standard of property and correctness of speech
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
- By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.
The China Governess, passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}
- His armies, in the following day, / On those fair plains their standards proud display.
- In France part of their gardens is laid out for flowers, others for fruits; some standards , some against walls.
- (Greene)
Adjective
(en adjective)- standard''' works in history; '''standard authors