Terminal

Noun

 * 1) A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
 * 2) A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
 * 3) 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.
 * 4) An electric contact on a battery.
 * 5) In telecommunications, the apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
 * 6)  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.
 * 7)  A computer program that emulates a terminal (6).
 * 8)  A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.

Adjective

 * 1) Fatal, resulting in death.
 * 2) Appearing at the end, top or apex of a physical object.
 * 3) Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time.

Thesaurus
CRT, L, Z, anchorage, apodosis, bad, beyond recall, beyond remedy, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding, bourn, branch, cable railway, catastrophe, caudal, ceasing, cessation, clause boundary, clause terminal, close juncture, closing, coastal, coda, cog railway, completing, completive, completory, concluding, conclusion, conclusive, conductor, connection, connector, consummation, consummative, control panel, coupling, crack of doom, crowning, culminating, culmination, cureless, curtain, curtains, deadly, death, decease, definitive, denouement, depot, despaired of, destination, destiny, determinant, determinative, determining, done for, doom, dying, effect, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, end, end point, ending, endmost, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eventual, expiration, expiring, extreme, facing death, falling terminal, farthest, fatal, fate, feeder, feeder line, final, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finalizing, finis, finish, finishing, fringing, frontier, fulfilling, given up, goal, going, gone, gravity-operated railway, greatest, harbor, haven, hindmost, hopeless, horse railway, immedicable, in articulo mortis, in extremis, incapable of life, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, izzard, junction, juncture, keyboard, lag, last, last breath, last gasp, last stop, last things, last trumpet, last words, latest, latter, latter end, lethal, light railroad, limbic, liminal, limit, limitable, limital, limiting, line, littoral, lost, low, main line, marginal, maximum, metro, module, monitor, monorail, moribund, mortal, near death, nonviable, omega, open juncture, past hope, past praying for, pause, payoff, period, peroration, polar, port, position, quietus, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railway, remediless, resolution, resting place, rimming, rising terminal, roadbed, roadway, ruined, sandhi, screen, sidetrack, siding, sinking, skirting, slipping, slipping away, station, stop, stoppage, stopping place, street railway, streetcar line, subway, swan song, switchback, tail, term, terminable, terminal point, terminating, termination, terminative, terminus, threshold, track, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, ultimate, underground, undone, unmitigable, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, windup, wire, word boundary

Etymology
< terminal: <  terminalis: <  terminus:; see term, terminus.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Greek: τερματικός σταθμός
 * Hebrew: בית נתיבות
 * Hebrew: בית נתיבות


 * Polish:
 * Russian:, терминал
 * Russian:, терминал


 * Chinese:
 * Greek: τερματικό
 * Greek: τερματικό


 * Polish:
 * Romanian: terminal
 * Russian: терминал


 * Chinese:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:


 * Greek: ιδεατό τερματικό
 * Polish:
 * Russian: терминал

Related terms

 * coterminal
 * term
 * terminable
 * terminally
 * terminate
 * terminus

Adjective

 * Greek: καταληκτική ασθένεια, μοιραία ασθένεια


 * Polish:


 * Greek:, ληκτικός


 * Polish: końcowy, graniczny

Anagrams

 * tramline

Adjective

 * 1) terminal

Noun

 * 1) terminal

Noun

 * 1) terminal

Adjective

 * 1) final
 * 2) deadly

Noun

 * 1) terminal
 * 2) closure

Synonyms

 * terminación

Related terms

 * terminar