terminal
/'tə:minl/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Causing or ending in death: Describes a disease or condition that will lead to death, or a patient who is dying.
- Forming the end or extremity: Located at or constituting the end, limit, or terminus of something.
- Occurring at the end of a fixed period: Relating to or happening at the conclusion of a term, period, or series.
- Relating to a transportation endpoint: Of or concerning the end of a delivery route or transportation line.
Noun:
- A computer interface: Electronic equipment with a keyboard and display for inputting and receiving data from a computer or network.
- An endpoint or extremity: Either end of something that has length.
- An electrical contact point: A point on a device (e.g., a battery) where an electrical connection is made.
- A transport station: A station at the end of a transportation line where passengers or goods are loaded or unloaded.
Examples
Adjective:
- The patient received palliative care for his terminal illness.
- Please proceed to the terminal station.
- Students must pass their terminal examinations.
Noun:
- The data was entered via a computer terminal.
- The terminal of the cable was frayed.
- Connect the red wire to the positive terminal.
- We met her at the bus terminal.
Advanced Usage
"Terminal velocity": The constant maximum speed reached by a falling object when the force of gravity is balanced by air resistance.
- The skydiver reached terminal velocity after a few seconds of freefall.
"Terminal degree": The highest academic degree in a field of study (e.g., Ph.D., M.D.).
- A Ph.D. is often considered the terminal degree for university professors.
Variants and Related Words
- Terminate (verb): To bring to an end.
- The company decided to terminate the contract.
- Termination (noun): The act of ending something or the end point itself.
- The termination of the lease is next month.
- Terminus (noun): A final point or goal; often used for the end station of a railway or bus line.
- London is the terminus for this railway line.
Synonyms
- Adjective (end): Final, last, concluding, endmost.
- Adjective (fatal): Fatal, lethal, mortal, deadly.
- Noun (endpoint): End, extremity, terminus.
- Noun (station): Depot, station, terminus.
Related Phrases
"Terminal leave": Final leave granted to military personnel prior to discharge.
- He spent his terminal leave traveling with his family.
"Terminal market": A central market, often in a major city, where goods are finally sold to retailers or consumers.
- The produce was shipped to the terminal market for distribution.
Idioms
- "Terminal boredom": Extreme, unending boredom. (This is a figurative use of 'terminal' to mean 'seemingly endless' or 'intolerable').
- The lecture was an exercise in terminal boredom.
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