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1. That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
2. Any of the binding conditions or promises in a contract or agreement.
3. Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
4. A limited or defined timespan.
5. Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
6. The time during which legal courts are open.
7. Certain days on which rent is paid.
8. Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
9. With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
10. A menstrual period.
11. The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
12. Relations among people.
13. 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.
14. A stated kind of language or terminology.
15. Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
16. The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
17. 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.
18. A point, line, or superficies that limits.
19. A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
20. A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.