The phrase "a distinguished term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a term that is notable, respected, or recognized for its significance or quality.
Example: "In academic circles, 'quantum mechanics' is considered a distinguished term that represents a fundamental theory in physics."
Alternatives: "a notable term" or "a respected term".
Dr. Futterman served a distinguished term of office from 1979 to 1982.
Turnbull praised Chubb for a "distinguished term of leadership", as the prime minister vowed to place science "right at the centre and the heart of our national agenda".
First I want to pay tribute to Ambassador Ibrahim Gambari of Nigeria, who will be passing the gavel in January after a distinguished term as Executive Board President.
His distinguished term as U.S. Ambassador to Austria and his continuing involvement in economic policy making and diplomatic affairs, gave Ambassador Wolf the special skills needed to lead JDC during a period of intensive activity and growth.
Using 214 regions of interest, binary support vector machines distinguished term from preterm infants with 84% accuracy (p < 0.0001).
He was pleased, he told them, to speak at a school named for "a distinguished three-term mayor".
Such artifacts can range from books and videotapes that tacitly embody shared cultural understandings to statistical tools and socially shared symbols embodying, for instance, a "language of thinking" that includes such finely distinguished terms as hypothesis, conjecture, theory, and guess.
After extracting the 31 most distinguished terms in Medline files with term frequency-inverse document frequency, we retrieved 443 candidate proteins with 31 terms.
The text mining technique of term frequency inverse document frequency is used to measure the importance of distinguished terms which reflect biomedical activity in rice before candidate genes are screened and vital terms are produced.
But Mr. Goode has never shown signs of being motivated by market forces; over several decades he has built a distinguished career on his own terms.
Since Congress and the president are on bad terms, Richard Lugar, a distinguished former senator from Indiana, sees danger ahead: "TPA will not be easy for the president to get.
