middle term

1. 1.

   the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion

   Broaderterm

   Part ofmajor premiseminor premise

Questions about middle term

What does middle term mean?

middle term means "the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion".

Is middle term a common word?

middle term is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.