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Terminal   /tˈərmənəl/   Listen
Terminal

noun
1.
Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods.  Synonyms: depot, terminus.
2.
A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.  Synonym: pole.
3.
Either extremity of something that has length.  Synonym: end.  "She knotted the end of the thread" , "They rode to the end of the line" , "The terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix"
4.
Electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route.  "Terminal charges"
2.
Relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time.  "Terminal payments"
3.
Being or situated at an end.  "Terminal buds on a branch" , "A terminal station" , "The terminal syllable"
4.
Occurring at or forming an end or termination.  Synonyms: concluding, final, last.  "The final chapter" , "The last days of the dinosaurs" , "Terminal leave"
5.
Causing or ending in or approaching death.  "Terminal cancer"



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"Terminal" Quotes from Famous Books



... told Archie to follow him carefully, and they, too, were soon flying away from the neighbourhood of the terminal, past hotels, stores, and dwellings, until they finally left the trolley-car, and passed through a cross street into a long, quiet thoroughfare which looked old enough to have been there for a hundred years. The houses ...
— The Adventures of a Boy Reporter • Harry Steele Morrison

... she will; and when she won't, she won't," he mused, gathering up his reins. But the terminal point to ...
— Other Things Being Equal • Emma Wolf

... is easy to understand the travel of the currents. Fig. 1 shows the station at rest. The current that arrives through L passes through the lightning protector, the body of the commutator, U, the terminal, v, and the call, W, bifurcates at P, and is closed by the earth. The inductor is in circuit, but, as it is in derivation, upon a very feeble resistance, v, nearly the whole of the current passes through the latter. When it ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various

... strips of lead or rods of carbon are connected to the terminals of an electric cell, as in Figure 208, and are then dipped into a solution of copper sulphate, the strip in connection with the negative terminal of the cell soon becomes thinly plated with a coating of copper. If a solution of silver nitrate is used in place of the copper sulphate, the coating formed will be of silver instead of copper. So long as the current ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark

... windows of two lights in each wall. The bookcases, of which there are eight on each side between the windows, with a half-case against the west wall, are rather larger than those at Corpus Christi College, being 10 feet high, and 2 feet 6 inches wide. They have a classical cornice and terminal pediment. The titles of the subjects are painted at the tops of the stalls as at Merton College. A few traces of chaining are still to be detected. The desks have not been altered. Each is in two divisions, as at Corpus, separated by a central bracket, and it has the slit to ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark


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