In elementary mathematics, a term is either a single number/variable, or the product of several numbers and/or variables. For example, in
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In traditional logic, term came to mean a referring expression, but only through the Latin terminus (so that terms were 'terminal for analysis'). In type theory, term is used for the linguistic constructs.
In language, term is a certain kind of word like jargon, slang.