terminal

Adjective

• causing or ending in or approaching death
  • a terminal patient
    
  • terminal cancer
    

• occurring at or forming an end or termination
  • his concluding words came as a surprise
    
  • the final chapter
    
  • the last days of the dinosaurs
    
  • terminal leave
    

• being or situated at an end
  • the endmost pillar
    
  • terminal buds on a branch
    
  • a terminal station
    
  • the terminal syllable
    

• relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
  • terminal examinations
    
  • terminal payments
    

• of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
  • freight pickup is a terminal service
    
  • terminal charges
    

Noun

• electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display

• either extremity of something that has length
  • the end of the pier
    
  • she knotted the end of the thread
    
  • they rode to the end of the line
    
  • the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix
    

• a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

• station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  concluding , final , last , end , pole , terminus , depot