That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus. • A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan. • Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. • Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made. • A point, line, or superficies that limits. • 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. • Relations among people. • Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year. • Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. • The time during which legal courts are open. • Certain days on which rent is paid. • 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. • The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. • A menstrual period. • 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 subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. • 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. • A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.