Term Word

A Term Word is a word string with specialized meaning in some domain.

AKA: Term.
Context:
- It can range from being a Technical Term to being a Lay Term.
Example(s):
- a Named Entity, such as “John Doe”, “Anytown USA”, “E. coli”
- an Abstract Technical Term, such as “hidden Markov models”.
- …
Counter-Example(s):
- a Common Noun.
- a Variable.
- a Logic Sentence Term.
- a Function Term.
See: Neologism, Collocation.

References

(Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology
- QUOTE: Terminology is the study of terms and their use. Terms are words and compound words that in specific contexts are given specific meanings, meanings that may deviate from the meaning the same words have in other contexts and in everyday language. The discipline Terminology studies among other things how such terms of art come to be and their interrelationships within a culture. Terminology differs from lexicography in studing concepts, conceptual systems, and their labels (terms), whereas lexicography study words and their meanings.
  Terminology thus denotes a discipline which systematically studies the labelling or designating of concepts particular to one or more subject fields or domains of human activity, through research and analysis of terms in context, for the purpose of documenting and promoting consistent usage. This study can be limited to one language or can cover more than one language at the same time (multilingual terminology, bilingual terminology, and so forth) or may focus on studies of terms across fields.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Term
- 1. A limitation, restriction or regulation. terms and conditions
- 2. A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
- 3. Relations among people. We are on friendly terms with each other.
- 4. A part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year in Britain; Michaelmas term, Lent term or Easter term, the equivalent to the American semester.
- 5. (mathematics) any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a + or - sign in an overall expression. All of these terms cancel out.
- 6. a duration of a set length; a period in office of fixed length.
- 7. (computing) a terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal
- 8. (of a patent) the maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force
- 9. (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
CYC Glossary http://www.cyc.com/cycdoc/ref/glossary.html
- term: A term is anything that can be an argument to a predicate or function. Variables are terms. Constants, both atomic constants and reified NATs, are terms. Non-reified NATs are terms. Numbers, strings, or even entire formulas can serve as terms.

(Dextre Clarke et al., 2008) ⇒ Stella Dextre Clarke, Alan Gilchrist, Ron Davies and Leonard Will. (2008). “Glossary of Terms Relating to Thesauri and Other Forms of Structured Vocabulary for Information Retrieval." Willpower Information
- term
  - word or phrase used to label a concept
  - Terms in a thesaurus can be either preferred terms or non-preferred terms.

(ANSI Z39.19, 2005) ⇒ ANSI. (2005). “ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies." ANSI.
- QUOTE: "term One or more words designating a concept. See also compound term, entry term, and precoordinated term.

http://www.uky.edu/~rosdatte/phi120/glossary.htm
- term: A term is a simple component of a statement, with a limited and definite meaning. In a categorical proposition the term must signify a class.