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insurance Academic term, part of a year at school or university Term of office, a set period a person serves in an elected office Term of patent, the period...

Look up set in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Set, The Set, SET or SETS may refer to: Set (mathematics), a collection of elements Category of sets, the...

The term set piece or set play is used in association football and rugby football to refer to a situation when the ball is returned to open play, for...

UK, the term "set screw" or "setscrew" refers simply to a bolt which is fully threaded, with no smooth shank; called cap screw in the US. Set screws are...

televisions, and the term set-top box has become something of a misnomer, possibly helping the adoption of the term digibox. Additionally, newer set-top boxes that...

a new, smaller NURSE set and a TERM set. Some writers on English accents have introduced a GOAL set to refer to a set of words that have the GOAT vowel...

A set (pitch set, pitch-class set, set class, set form, set genus, pitch collection) in music theory, as in mathematics and general parlance, is a collection...

in most cases the prisoner will be eligible for parole after a minimum term set by the judge. In exceptional cases a judge may impose a "whole life order"...

this film which has since become the primary reference point for the term. Set among London's elite during the Victorian era, it portrays a seemingly...

example, in a signature consisting of a single binary operation, the term algebra over a set X of variables is exactly the free magma generated by X. Other...

set U, the absolute complement of A is the set of elements in U that are not in A. The relative complement of A with respect to a set B, also termed the...

A term limit is a legal restriction on the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. When term limits are found in presidential...

this definition, a set is a subset of itself. For cases where this possibility is unsuitable or would make sense to be rejected, the term proper subset is...

other sets. A set may have a finite number of elements or be an infinite set. There is a unique set with no elements, called the empty set; a set with...

cracker and Georgia cracker). The exact history and origin of the term is debated. The term is "probably an agent noun" from the word crack. The word crack...

The term “set and drift” is used to describe external forces that affect a boat and keep it from following an intended course. To understand and calculate...

A set function generally aims to measure subsets in some way. Measures are typical examples of "measuring" set functions. Therefore, the term "set function"...

The term has been more generally used to mean getting rid of someone or something. In the 1970s, its meaning expanded to refer to murder. The term eighty-six...

Long-Term Capital Management L.P. (LTCM) was a highly leveraged hedge fund. In 1998, it received a $3.6 billion bailout from a group of 14 banks, in a...

A solar term (or jieqi, simplified Chinese: 节气; traditional Chinese: 節氣) is any of twenty-four periods in traditional Chinese lunisolar calendars that...