Terminus

Noun

 * 1) The end or final point of something.
 * 2) The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
 * 3) A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary.

Thesaurus
L, Z, anchorage, apodosis, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, branch, break boundary, breakoff point, cable railway, catastrophe, cease, ceasing, ceiling, cessation, circumscription, close, coda, cog railway, compass, completing, completion, conclusion, confine, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, death, decease, delimitation, denouement, desistance, destination, destiny, determinant, division line, doom, effect, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, extremity, fate, feeder, feeder line, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, finishing, floor, frontier, full development, goal, gravity-operated railway, harbor, haven, hedge, high-water mark, horse railway, interface, izzard, junction, last, last breath, last gasp, last stop, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, light railroad, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, low-water mark, lower limit, main line, march, mark, maturation, maturity, mete, metro, monorail, omega, payoff, perfection, period, peroration, port, quietus, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railway, resolution, resting place, ripeness, roadbed, roadway, rounding off, rounding out, sidetrack, siding, start, starting line, starting point, stop, stoppage, stopping place, street railway, streetcar line, subway, swan song, switchback, target date, term, terminal, terminal date, terminal point, termination, threshold, time allotment, topping off, track, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, underground, upper limit, windup

Etymology
From terminus:. From the god Terminus who presided over boundaries.

Related terms

 * terminate
 * terminations
 * terminus a quo
 * terminus ante quem

Anagrams

 * runtimes, run times

Noun

 * 1) a boundary, limit, end

Alternative forms

 * termō
 * termō

Etymology
From the root. Confer Sanskrit तरति:, tirain:; Ancient Greek τέρμα: and τέρμων:, trans: and intro:.

Synonyms

 * fīnis, līmes, mēta

Derived terms



 * terminālis
 * terminō
 * terminō

Related terms

 * terminātē
 * terminātiō
 * terminātor
 * terminātus

Descendants

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 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: