condition vs term

condition

noun
  • A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way. 

  • A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false. 

  • A requirement or requisite. 

  • The health status of a medical patient. 

  • A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness. 

  • The state or quality. 

  • A particular state of being. 

verb
  • To place conditions or limitations upon. 

  • To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner. 

  • To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). 

  • To contract; to stipulate; to agree. 

  • To subject to the process of acclimation. 

  • To shape the behaviour of someone to do something. 

  • To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible. 

  • To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college. 

  • To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on. 

  • To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise. 

term

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

  • A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. 

  • Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made. 

  • A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan. 

  • The time during which legal courts are open. 

  • Certain days on which rent is paid. 

  • Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. 

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

  • Relations among people. 

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

  • A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept. 

  • Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. 

  • The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. 

  • A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. 

  • 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. 

  • A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. 

  • With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception). 

  • One whose employment has been terminated 

  • Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year. 

verb
  • To phrase a certain way; to name or call. 

  • To terminate one's employment 

adj
  • Born or delivered at term. 

How often have the words condition and term occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )