in general, signifies much the same with boundary or limit.

**Term**, in law, is generally taken for a limitation of time or estate: as a lease for term of life, or years.

**Term**, in grammar, denotes some word or expression of a language.

**Term in the arts**, or **Term of art**, is a word which, besides the literal and popular meaning which it has, or may have, in common language, bears a further and peculiar meaning in some art or science.