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terminal
/ˈtɝmɪnəl/
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What does terminal mean?
noun
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
More meanings (15)
noun
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- 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.
- A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
adjective
- Fatal; resulting in death.
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- (archaic) Occurring every term; termly.
verb
- To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtɝmɪnəl/
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They can always be made to do this by a timely pinch that takes off the terminal bud of the cane.
There are photographs of bridges and stations--"vast terminal improvements", "a masterpiece of modern engineering", "the highest, greatest and most architectural of bridges".
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It has granted to a few monopolies transportation and terminal facilities which enable them to hold up deliveries and thus control prices.
This is a tall deciduous shrub, with oblong and tomentose leaves, and flowers in loose, terminal panicles and produced freely in August.
The passage is sometimes completely closed for half or two-thirds of its length, with the terminal part consisting of a flattened solid expansion.