FULL TERM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does full term mean? 

• FULL TERM (noun)
  The noun FULL TERM has 1 sense:

1. the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent

  Familiarity information: FULL TERM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FULL TERM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

full term; term

Context example:

a healthy baby born at full term

Hypernyms ("full term" is a kind of...):

point; point in time (an instant of time)

Holonyms ("full term" is a part of...):

gestation; gestation period (the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans))

 Context examples 

A human life stage that begins at full term birth and continues until twenty-seven complete days of age.

(Full Term Neonatal Stage, NICHD)

A pregnancy is considered full term at between 39 and 40 weeks.

(Extreme temperatures could increase preterm birth risk, NIH)

Researchers have found genetic mutations that affect whether a woman is likely to have her baby early or carry it to full term.

(New Genetic Discovery May Eventually End Premature Birth, VOA)

When they got out the other day, which was some years before their full term, they set themselves, as you perceive, to hunt down the traitor and to avenge the death of their comrade upon him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)