Terminal
WordNet
adjective
(1) Causing or ending in or approaching death
"A terminal patient"
"Terminal cancer"
(2) Occurring at or forming an end or termination
"His concluding words came as a surprise"
"The final chapter"
"The last days of the dinosaurs"
"Terminal leave"
(3) Being or situated at an end
"The endmost pillar"
"Terminal buds on a branch"
"A terminal station"
"The terminal syllable"
(4) Relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
"Terminal examinations"
"Terminal payments"
(5) Of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
"Freight pickup is a terminal service"
"Terminal charges"
noun
(6) Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
(7) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
(8) Electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
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Etymology
< < < ; see term, terminus.
Noun
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- In electronics, the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- In telecommunications, the apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- In the context of computer hardware, a device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A computer program that emulates a terminal (6).
- A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.