terminal

[ tur-muh-nl ]

/ ˈtɜr mə nl /

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adjective

situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.

occurring at or forming the end of a series, succession, or the like; closing; concluding.

pertaining to or lasting for a term or definite period; occurring at fixed terms or in every term: terminal payments.

pertaining to, situated at, or forming the terminus of a railroad.

Botany. growing at the end of a branch or stem, as a bud or inflorescence.

Architecture. noting a figure, as a herm or term, in the form of a bust upon a gaine.

pertaining to or placed at a boundary, as a landmark.

occurring at or causing the end of life: a terminal disease.

Informal. utterly beyond hope, rescue, or saving: The undercapitalized project is a terminal problem.

noun

a terminal part of a structure; end or extremity.

Railroads. a major assemblage of station, yard, maintenance, and repair facilities, as at a terminus, at which trains originate or terminate, or at which they are distributed or combined.

Computers. any device for entering information into a computer or receiving information from it, as a keyboard with video display unit, either adjoining the computer or at some distance from it.

a station on the line of a public carrier, as in a city center or at an airport, where passengers embark or disembark and where freight is received or discharged.

Electricity.

the mechanical device by means of which an electric connection to an apparatus is established.
the point of current entry to, or point of current departure from, any conducting component in an electric circuit.

Architecture.

a herm or term.
a carving or the like at the end of something, as a finial.

Origin of terminal

1480–90; late Middle English < Latin terminālis, equivalent to termin(us) end, limit + -ālis -al¹

SYNONYMS FOR terminal

1, 2 final, ending, ultimate.

8 fatal, mortal, lethal.

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OTHER WORDS FROM terminal

ter·mi·nal·ly, adverb in·ter·ter·mi·nal, adjective non·ter·mi·nal, adjective non·ter·mi·nal·ly, adverb

pre·ter·mi·nal, adjective sub·ter·mi·nal, adjective sub·ter·mi·nal·ly, adverb

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH terminal

terminal terminus

Words nearby terminal

term., termagant, terman, termer, terminable, terminal, terminal artery, terminal bar, terminal boutons, terminal bronchiole, terminal bud

Example sentences from the Web for terminal

But millions of rules result in perpetual error, and, as a terminal side effect, make leadership and accomplishment illegal.

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Someone without a terminal illness can go through years and years of terrible suffering.

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“Someone with a terminal illness will die soon anyway,” he said.

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Perhaps more than anything, what people fear most—aside from the pain of a terminal illness—is the loss of control.

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The American public is more or less evenly split on the question of physician-assisted death in the case of terminal illness.

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Most of the terminal towns vanished completely when the railroad moved on.

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These two parts form a ring through which the terminal tendon of the fleshy portion of the same muscle passes.

Artistic Anatomy of Animals |douard Cuyer
In the use of punctuation marks; first of terminal marks, then of the marks within a sentence.

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So, getting rid of these initial and terminal superfluities, there remains Allart, or Alard.

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Between its terminal moraines and the older moraines we have skirted, a rather voluminous stream has eroded its valley.

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British Dictionary definitions for terminal

terminal

/ (ˈtɜːmɪnəl) /

adjective

of, being, or situated at an end, terminus, or boundary a terminal station; terminal buds

of, relating to, or occurring after or in a term terminal leave

(of a disease) terminating in death terminal cancer

informal extreme terminal boredom

of or relating to the storage or delivery of freight at a warehouse a terminal service

noun

a terminating point, part, or place

a point at which current enters or leaves an electrical device, such as a battery or a circuit
a conductor by which current enters or leaves at such a point

computing a device having input/output links with a computer but situated at a distance from the computer

architect

an ornamental carving at the end of a structure
another name for term (def. 10)

a point or station usually at the end of the line of a railway, serving as an important access point for passengers or freight
a less common name for terminus

a purpose-built reception and departure structure at the terminus of a bus, sea, or air transport route

a site where raw material is unloaded, stored, in some cases reprocessed, and reloaded for further transportation, esp an onshore installation designed to receive offshore oil or gas from tankers or a pipeline

physiol

the smallest arteriole before its division into capillaries
either of two veins that collect blood from the thalamus and surrounding structures and empty it into the internal cerebral vein
the portion of a bronchiole just before it subdivides into the air sacs of the lungs

Derived forms of terminal

terminally, adverb

Word Origin for terminal

C15: from Latin terminālis, from terminus end

Medical definitions for terminal

terminal

[ tûr′mə-nəl ]

adj.

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

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

Causing, ending in, or approaching death; fatal.

Scientific definitions for terminal

terminal

[ tûr′mə-nəl ]

Electricity

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

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

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