| breach of contract | a breach of a legal duty, failure to do something that is required in a contract |
| contract killing | a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer |
| contract contract bridge | a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid |
| fixed intonation | the intonation of keyboard instruments where the pitch of each note is fixed and cannot be varied by the performer |
hard disc
hard disk
fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
read-only memory
ROM
read-only storage
fixed storage | (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed |
terminus terminal figure
term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
| fixed phagocyte | a phagocyte that does not circulate in the blood but is fixed in the liver or spleen or bone marrow etc. |
short-term memory
STM
immediate memory | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it |
long-term memory
LTM | your general store of remembered information |
| term | any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial, the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree |
| degree of a term | the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term |
| contract law | that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts |
| term | a word or expression used for some particular thing, he learned many medical terms |
| term paper | a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term |
| futures contract | an agreement to buy or sell a specific amount of a commodity or financial instrument at a particular price on a stipulated future date, the contract can be sold before the settlement date |
| contract | a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law |
adhesion contract
contract of adhesion | a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts), implies inequality in bargaining power |
| aleatory contract | a contract whose performance by one party depends on the occurrence of an uncertain contingent event (but if it is contingent on the outcome of a wager it is not enforceable) |
| bilateral contract | a contract involving mutual promises (each party is both promisor and promisee) |
| conditional contract | a contract whose performance depends on a fact or event that affects legal relations |
| cost-plus contract | a contract in which the contractor is paid his total cost plus a stated percentage of profit |
| gambling contract | a contract whose performance by one party is contingent on the outcome of a bet, unenforceable by statute in most jurisdictions |
marriage contract
marriage settlement | a prenuptial agreement or contract |
| output contract | a contract in which you promise to deliver your entire output to the other party who promises to accept it |
purchase contract
purchase agreement | a contract stating the terms of a purchase |
| quasi contract | a contract created by law for reasons of justice without any expression of assent |
| requirements contract | a contract in which you agree to purchase all your requirements of a particular sort from one party |
sealed instrument
contract under seal
special contract | a contract that is signed and has the (wax) seal of the signer attached |
| service contract | a contract for maintenance services |
| severable contract | a contract which, in the event of a breach by one of the parties, can be considered as several independent agreements expressed in a single instrument |
| unilateral contract | a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise) |
labor contract
labor agreement
collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
| yellow-dog contract | a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade union |
employment contract
employment agreement | contract between employer and employee |
sale in gross
contract of hazard | a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage |
| contract declaration | (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make |
| term | one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition, the major term of a syllogism must occur twice |
| major term | the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion |
| minor term | the term in a syllogism that is the subject of the conclusion |
| middle term | the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion |
| condition term | (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement, the contract set out the conditions of the lease, the terms of the treaty were generous |
| oral contract | an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation |
mantissa
fixed-point part | the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm, in the expression log . the mantissa is . |
fixed-point notation
fixed-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is fixed by convention |
typewriter font
constant-width font
fixed-width font
monospaced font | a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter) |
slang slang expression
slang term | informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions, often vituperative or vulgar, their speech was full of slang expressions |
| contract offer | offer by an employer to contract to pay an employee at a given rate |
| fixed star | any star in the Ptolemaic theory of planetary motion |
| term infant | infant born at a gestational age between and completed weeks |