"in terms of" vs. "with regard to"

Subject: "in terms of" vs. "with regard to"
From: "Kevin Christy" <kevinchristy -at- socal -dot- rr -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 11:09:36 -0700


I'm editing a document, and a sentence fragment reads:

"[we] conducted a design and analysis of [our system] in terms of the
switching efficiency, wavelength dependence, extinction ratio, polarization
dependence and its material and electro-optic parameters."

I want to change that "in terms of" to "with regard to," and then I realized
that I couldn't intelligently explain the difference between the two if
someone asked me to; "with regard to" just *feels* more appropriate. Any
thoughts or guidance?

Kevin



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