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A term is a word or word-group used to name the notion characteristic of some special field of knowledge, industry or culture. A term is a very peculiar type of word. Terms are mostly monosemantic. Polysemy (if it arises) is a drawback, so all try to avoid. Terms are not emotionally coloured. Many of the terms that in the first period of their existence are known to a few specialists, later become used by a wide circle of people,
e.g. stratosphere (1908), gene (1908), vitamin (1912), isotope (1932), radar (1942),
transistor (1952).
