....), the word a or an, used with nouns to denote any one of a common or general class. -- _____ inflorescence. (Bot.) See Indeterminate inflorescence, under Indeterminate. -- _____ proposition (Logic), a statement whose subject is a common term, with nothing to indicate distribution or nondistribution; as, Man is mortal. -- _____ term (Logic), a negative term; as, the not-...