The phrase "explains the terms" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to someone or something providing an explanation for terms or conditions. For example: "The guidebook explains the terms and conditions for the rental agreement."
The Post vents at length about the pretension, then explains the terms.
Explains the terms set up by the Allied Control Council, and how the Russians did themselves out of most of their veto power.
He explains: "The terms of contracts control billions of pounds of public sector investment – and as more and more services are contracted out, oversight is taking place through contract management, rather than through the internal structures of local government and public services.
BBC chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym explains the terms and how they are related - with the help of sweets.
In the online questionnaire, each section is prefixed with an explanatory text which clarifies what the section is about, explains the terms used, and gives examples.
For the minimization of the bit metric, the values of and need to be in the opposite directions of and which explains the terms and.UE needs to know the constellation of to compute (A.2).
As Cross explains, the term "ghost note" comes from musical composition.
(That explains the term "upfront," in that the dickering occurs before the new season).
"During the Iraq war," Reynolds explains, "the term 'coalition of the willing' was used and I hated that.
As Warshauer explains, the term "martial law" originally referred only to "a code of conduct for the armed forces".
Hooper explains the term in his report, in a footnote on page 12: "Royal Mail delivers 99% of all letters downstream.
