Terminal (electronics)
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.