'understand in terms' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to explain something in terms of a specific logic or context. For example, "I can't explain the thunderstorms in the area, but I can understand them in terms of the atmospheric conditions in the region."
The Great Compression -- the substantial reduction in inequality during the New Deal and the Second World War -- also seems hard to understand in terms of the usual theories.
"From what I understand, in terms of the cost of production for the Fit, the difference between China and Japan is not significant," he said.
It may well be that psychopathic acts are easier to understand in terms of the transient loss of free will; our day-to-day activities, generally much less scrutinized, are in all probability equally mysterious, and equally without free will.
"We have levels that we are not allowed to test over, so even if she's a female, she's on the very fringe of the normal female athlete biological composition from what I understand in terms of hormone testing," Cummins said.
As its first full year draws to a close, the disarray of the Abbott government is obvious to all, and easy enough to understand in terms of broken promises from a government that came to office almost entirely on the basis of branding its opponents as liars.
RTP is difficult to understand in terms of such timing.
"All of these strategies can be understood in terms of profit maximization," Mr. Grundfest said.
I heard a movement being made, a movement I understood in terms of clumsiness.
Here efficiency is understood in terms of standardisation and narrow economic and bureaucratic judgements.
This global seismicity distribution is best understood in terms of its plate tectonic setting.
But I definitely feel I'm more understood in terms of my role in the team now.
