Terminal meaning

tûr'mə-nəl

Of, at, relating to, or being the end of a section or series; final.

adjective

Terminal is defined as a transportation hub or destination, or a device for communicating with a computer, or a connective point in an electric circuit.

The area where all the trains leave from is an example of a railway terminal.

The keyboard and screen where you search for books in the library is an example of a computer terminal.

The point where two electric circuits are joined is an example of a terminal.

noun

Of, at, relating to, or forming a limit, boundary, extremity, or end.

The terminal moraine of a glacier.

adjective

A point or part that forms the end.

noun

The definition of terminal refers to the end of something, or something that is likely to end in death.

The date on which a government aid program will end is an example of a terminal date.

Cancer that is going to result in a person dying in a month is an example of a terminal disease.

adjective

Growing or appearing at the end of a stem, branch, stalk, or similar part.

adjective

Of or relating to a transportation terminal.

Stopped at the terminal bar for a drink.

adjective

Relating to or occurring in a term or each term.

Terminal inventories.

adjective

Causing, ending in, or approaching death; fatal.

Terminal cancer; a terminal patient.

adjective

Extreme.

Terminal boredom.

adjective

An ornamental figure or object placed at the end of a larger structure; a finial.

noun

A device, often equipped with a keyboard and a video display, through which data or information can be entered or displayed.

noun

Of, at, or forming the end, extremity, or terminus of something.

Terminal feathers.

adjective

Occurring at the end of a series; concluding; closing; final.

A terminal payment.

adjective

Designating, of, or having a fatal disease in its final stages.

Terminal cancer, to be diagnosed as terminal.

adjective

Extreme or excessive.

Terminal cuteness.

adjective

Having to do with a term or established period of time; occurring regularly in each term.

adjective

Of, at, or forming the end of a transportation line.

adjective

Growing at the end of a stem or branch.

A terminal bud.

adjective

A terminating part; end; extremity; limit.

noun

A connective device or point in or attached to an electric circuit or conductor.

noun

An ornamental carving at the end of a structural element.

noun

A device, usually with a typewriter keyboard and a video screen, for putting information into, or getting it from, a computer, as over communication lines.

noun

Relating to, situated at, or forming a limit, boundary, extremity, or end.

adjective

Relating to, occurring at, or being the end of a section or series; final.

adjective

Causing, ending in, or approaching death; fatal.

adjective

A position in a circuit or device at which a connection can be made or broken.

A device, often equipped with a keyboard and a video display, by which one can read, enter, or manipulate information in a computer system.

(1) An input/output (I/O) device for a computer that has a keyboard and mouse for input and a video screen for output. Older terminals did not have a mouse and used a printer for output. See dumb terminal and ATM machine.

A device that constitutes a point of termination of a communications circuit or channel, i.e., a transmitter or receiver, also known respectively as a source or sink.

In telecommunications, a voice terminal is a telephone set, which can take many forms, including a simple analog rotary dial set, a digital smartphone, a digital softphone, and a cellular telephone.

In data communications, a device comprising a keyboard, video adapter, and monitor. A data terminal is a dumb terminal, i.e., it does no independent processing, but relies on the computational resources of a computer to which it is connected over a dedicated circuit or through a network. A data terminal essentially is an input/output (I/O) device. See also DTE and terminal emulation.

A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.

noun

A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

noun

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.

noun

An electric contact on a battery.

noun

In telecommunications, the apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.

noun

(computing) 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.

noun

(computing) A computer program that emulates a terminal (6).

noun

(computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.

noun

(illness): Fatal; resulting in death.

(example) Terminal cancer.

adjective

Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.

adjective

Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time.

adjective

Origin of terminal

Middle English from Latin terminālis from terminus boundary

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From French terminal, from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final"), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end"); see term, terminus.

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