Alternative spelling of long-term

Alternative spelling of short-term

The near future; a comparatively brief time period starting with the present moment (or other time of reference); the time in which immediate needs and goals are relevant.

comparative form of short-term: more short-term

superlative form of short-term: most short-term

(information science) A term discouraged by a controlled vocabulary in favor of its authorized synonym, such as pitch in favor of frequency.

(information science) A term prescribed by a controlled vocabulary as the one preferable to its synonyms, such as frequency preferable to pitch.

(information science) A term that captures the essence of the topic of a document, used as keyword to retrieve documents in an information system, for instance a catalog or a search engine.

(metadata) A word or a combination of words that semantically represent the data type (value domain) of a data element, such as the suffix "ID" for the data element "PersonID", the suffix "Name" for "PersonGivenName" and "PersonFamilyName" and "Date" for "PersonBirthDate".

(mathematics) monomial expressions whose variable components are identical.