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What is "full-term"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
full-term
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
infant
▪ The typical full-term infant can be described as asleep for about seventeen hours out of the twenty-four.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She was also helped to visualize a future successful pregnancy and full-term birth, which she experienced two months later.
▪ The typical full-term infant can be described as asleep for about seventeen hours out of the twenty-four.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
full-term

full-term \full-term\ adj. Gestated for the entire duration of normal pregnancy; as, a healthy full-term baby; -- of new-born infants. Opposite of premature. Also See: mature.

WordNet
full-term

adj. gestated for the entire duration of normal pregnancy; "a healthy full-term baby" [ant: premature]

Usage examples of "full-term".

In some of these birth-mills a full-term parturition, or even a fetiparous one, can be downright dangerous, believe me.

According to Remo's recollection, Alice had been contemplating this abortion since the previous March, and the kid should have been born by now, a normal fourteen-month full-term infant, weighing somewhere between forty and fifty pounds.