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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



... heavy snowstorms the stages were apt to get stalled, so that a few stage sleighs were run in midwinter, but only in the city proper. Their farthest uptown terminal was at Fourteenth Street, so they were not ...
— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin

... hydrogen atoms are of equal value, and no matter which one may be substituted by another element or group the same compound will result. In propane, on the other hand, the hydrogen atoms attached to the terminal carbon atoms differ from those joined to the medial atom; we may therefore expect to obtain different compounds according to the position of the hydrogen atom substituted. By introducing a methyl group we may obtain ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various

... English—or, indeed, into modern French—verse, but any one who will take the trouble to catch the metre and will remember that each verse in the "leash" ends in the same sound,—aimer, parler, cler, mortel, damnede, mel, deu, suef, nasel,—however the terminal syllables may be spelled, can follow the feeling of the poetry as well as though it were Greek hexameter. He will feel the simple force of the words and action, as he feels Homer. It is the ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams

... marshes in July or August, when its clusters of deep yellow, orange, or flame-colored lilies tower above the surrounding vegetation. Like the color of most flowers, theirs intensifies in salt air. Commonly from three to seven lilies appear in a terminal group; but under skilful cultivation even forty will crown the stalk that reaches a height of nine feet where its home suits it perfectly; or maybe only a poor array of dingy yellowish caps top a shrivelled stem when unfavorable ...
— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al

... to the east of the city that the ancient fortifications are found, on the most western portion of the crescent-shaped barrier of mountains. According to some natives the smaller fort, the Kala-i-Dukhtar, or Virgin fort, on the terminal point of the range, at one time formed part of ancient Kerman. The fort, the Kala-i-Dukhtar is on the ridge of the hill, with a fairly well-preserved castellated wall and a large doorway in the perpendicular rock at the end of the ...
— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor


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