The phrase "a term designating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when defining or explaining a specific term or concept in a formal or academic context.
Example: "In linguistics, 'phoneme' is a term designating the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish meaning."
Alternatives: "a term referring to" or "a term indicating".
More than two-fifths of the state's population belongs officially to Scheduled Castes (a term designating those classes that have traditionally occupied a low position in the Indian caste system) and Scheduled Tribes (a term generally applied to indigenous peoples who fall outside the traditional Indian social hierarchy).
This objection assumes a purely psychological criterion of identity, however, one in which, further, "person" is what's known as a substance concept, a term designating a kind to which an individual always and essentially belongs throughout its existence.
An example of this could be found among the Maguindanao where the word binalig is used by contemporary musicians as a name for one of the rhythmic modes associated with kangungudan but it has also been used as a term designating a "new" style.
The interim president, Jocelerme Privert, took office on February 14 , 2016 for a term designated to end June 14.
There is an obvious difference between what a term designates and what it means.
Consider, for example, the result of embedding "F [A]" in the context "it is not true that," where 'A' is temporarily treated as a semantically simple term designating a complex (Keep in place the assumption that a sentence containing a non-referring semantically simple term is neither true nor false).
The inhabitants are referred to as either Sāḥilī, in Arabic, designating persons "from the coastal region," or Āfāqī, a local term designating "sedentary villagers".
"Combatants" is a technical term designating agents of aggression or, more broadly, "dangerous wrongdoers" or "agents of harm"; they are legitimate targets of potentially lethal violence.
A small fraction of Sikkim's people belong to the Scheduled Castes (an official term designating those peoples who traditionally have occupied a low position within the Indian caste system).
(The temper and composition of steel used for crossbows had to be precisely controlled, and the expression "crossbow steel" became an accepted term designating steel of the highest quality).
Woody Allen came close to saddling "Annie Hall" with the title "Anhedonia" because that psychiatric term, designating an inability to experience pleasure, neatly encapsulated the personality of the character he played.
