Term

TERM

-noun

1. a name, expression, or word used for some particular thing, often in a specialized field of knowledge

2. any word or expression

3. a limited period of time

4. any of the divisions of the academic year during which a school, college, etc, is in session

5. a point in time determined for an event or for the end of a period

6. Also called : full term . the period at which childbirth is imminent

7. (law)

a. an estate or interest in land limited to run for a specified period

b. the duration of an estate, etc.

c. (formerly) a period of time during which sessions of courts of law were held

d. time allowed to a debtor to settle

8. (mathematics) . either of the expressions the ratio of which is a fraction or proportion, any of the separate elements of a sequence, or any of the individual addends of a polynomial or series

9. (logic)

a. the word or phrase that forms either the subject or predicate of a proposition

b. a name or variable, as opposed to a predicate

c. one of the relata of a relation

d. any of the three subjects or predicates occurring in a syllogism

10. Also called : terminal, terminus, terminal figure architecture 

11. (Australian Rules) (football) the usual word for quarter

12. (archaic) a boundary or limit

-verb

13. (trans.) to designate; call

For a brief term

I‘ve come to terms with my emotions

And a brief romance

Is orchestrated  in the lapse

It takes for my camera

To go “click”