The phrase "the term designates" is a correct way to describe something in written English.
It can be used when introducing a specific word or phrase and explaining its meaning or usage. Example: The term "anthropomorphism" designates the attribution of human characteristics to non-human entities.
More narrowly, the term designates the thought of the French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798 1857).
In Indian philosophy the term designates the distinctive way in which each philosophical system looks at things, including its exposition of sacred scriptures and authoritative knowledge.
The term designates such alleged occurrences in the lives of saints and of spiritualist mediums, generally during a séance; levitation of furniture and other objects during a séance has also been reported.
Still later, in 1865, the term designated the three-cent nickel, with nickel increased to 25%.
Originally, the term designated an artist making work outside the context of art history, removed from the artistic institution, apart from the dialogue and marketplace of contemporary art.
Positive and negative signs before the terms designated the synergetic and antagonistic effects of the corresponding variables.
The term type 1 diabetes was separately paired with each of the terms designating a pediatric population (children, adolescents, pediatric).
In Equation 4, the terms designated with lowercase letters represent the input dosing and tumor response data for each group of dosed animals or controls.
The third term designates the listing number of the two replicates (B1 or B2).
In all of these examples, whether the relevant term designates in a given instance depends on the properties of the object used to ground reference in the baptismal ceremony.
Each MeSH descriptor is named by a preferred term and may have some entry terms or synonyms, e.g. "myocardial infarction" is the preferred term designating the same MeSH descriptor rather than "myocardial infarct", "infarct, myocardial", etc. which are entry terms, or synonyms.
