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ter⋅mi⋅nal

  [tur-muh-nl]
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–adjective
1. situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
2. occurring at or forming the end of a series, succession, or the like; closing; concluding.
3. pertaining to or lasting for a term or definite period; occurring at fixed terms or in every term: terminal payments.
4. pertaining to, situated at, or forming the terminus of a railroad.
5. Botany. growing at the end of a branch or stem, as a bud or inflorescence.
6. Architecture. noting a figure, as a herm or term, in the form of a bust upon a gaine.
7. pertaining to or placed at a boundary, as a landmark.
8. occurring at or causing the end of life: a terminal disease.
9. Informal. utterly beyond hope, rescue, or saving: The undercapitalized project is a terminal problem.
–noun
10. a terminal part of a structure; end or extremity.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Electricity.
a. the mechanical device by means of which an electric connection to an apparatus is established.
b. the point of current entry to, or point of current departure from, any conducting component in an electric circuit.
15. Architecture.
a. a herm or term.
b. a carving or the like at the end of something, as a finial.
Origin:
1480–90; late ME < L terminālis, equiv. to termin(us) end, limit + -ālis -al 1

Related forms:
ter⋅mi⋅nal⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1, 2. final, ending, ultimate. 8. fatal, mortal, lethal.
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ter·mi·nal   (tûr'mə-nəl)   
adj.  

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

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

  3. Of, at, relating to, or being the end of a section or series; final. See Synonyms at last1.

  4. Relating to or occurring in a term or each term: terminal inventories.

  5. Causing, ending in, or approaching death; fatal: terminal cancer; a terminal patient.

n.  

  1. A point or part that forms the end.

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

  3. Electricity

    1. A position in a circuit or device at which a connection is normally established or broken.

    2. A passive conductor at such a position used to facilitate the connection.

    3. Either end of a railroad or other transportation line; a terminus.

    4. A station at the end of a transportation line or at a major junction on a transportation line.

    5. A town at the end of a transportation line.

    1. Either end of a railroad or other transportation line; a terminus.

    2. A station at the end of a transportation line or at a major junction on a transportation line.

    3. A town at the end of a transportation line.

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


[Middle English, from Latin terminālis, from terminus, boundary.]
ter'mi·nal·ly adv.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1ter·mi·nal
Pronunciation: 't&rm-n&l, -&n-&l
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to,or being at an end, extremity, boundary, or terminus terminal phalanx of a finger>
2 a : leading ultimately to death : FATAL <terminal cancer> b : approaching or close to death : being in the final stages of afatal disease terminal patient>
3 : being at or near the end of a chain of atoms making up a molecule terminal carbon> —ter·mi·nal·ly /-E/ adverb

Main Entry: 2terminal
Function: noun
: a part that forms an end; especially : NERVE ENDING terminal of a neuron —R. J. Wurtman>
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Medical Dictionary

terminal ter·mi·nal (tûr'mə-nəl)
adj.

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

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

  3. Causing, ending in, or approaching death; fatal.

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Science Dictionary
terminal   (tûr'mə-nəl)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. Electricity

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

  3. 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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Computing Dictionary

terminal
1. An electronic or electromechanical device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and displaying data received. Early terminals were called teletypes, later ones VDUs. Typically a terminal communicates with the computer via a serial line.
2. 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.
3. Apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line.
(1995-10-02)

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