terminal

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɚmɪnəl/

terminal (plural terminals)

1. A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
2. A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
3. A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
4. 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.
5. A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
6. A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
7. (electronics) 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.
8. An electric contact on a battery.
9. (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
10. (computing) 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.
11. (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
12. (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
13. (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptid.

• coterminal
• term
• terminable
• terminally
• terminate
• terminus

terminal (comparative more terminal, superlative most terminal)

1. Fatal; resulting in death.

   terminal cancer

2. Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
3. Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time.
4. (archaic) Occurring every term; termly.

   a student's terminal fees

• (appearing at the end): endly, final, late, endsome

• non-terminal
• (illness): early
• (appearing at the end): initial, early

• terminal moraine

• term
• terminus
• terminate
• termination
• (illness): incurable

terminal (third-person singular simple present terminals, present participle terminaling or terminalling, simple past and past participle terminaled or terminalled)

1. To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.

• terminal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• terminal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• tram line, tramline

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis, from Latin terminus.

terminal (masculine and feminine plural terminals)

1. terminal

• terminar
• terme

terminal m (plural terminals)

1. (computing) terminal

From English terminal, from French terminal, from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”).

• Hyphenation: ter‧mi‧nal

terminal

1. a terminus
2. an airport terminal
3. a port terminal
4. a rail station

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis, from Latin terminus.

• IPA^(key): /tɛʁ.mi.nal/

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• Homophones: terminale, terminales

terminal (feminine singular terminale, masculine plural terminaux, feminine plural terminales)

1. terminal

• terminer

terminal m (plural terminaux)

1. terminal

• “terminal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

terminal (not comparable)

1. terminal

• terminal in Duden online

From Latin terminus, via English terminal

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terminal m (definite singular terminalen, indefinite plural terminaler, definite plural terminalene)

1. a terminal

• ferjeterminal
• flyterminal
• godsterminal

• “terminal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin terminus, via English terminal

terminal m (definite singular terminalen, indefinite plural terminalar, definite plural terminalane)

1. a terminal

• ferjeterminal
• flyterminal
• godsterminal

• “terminal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

terminal m inan

1. airport terminal (building at an airport from which passengers board the planes)
2. transportation hub
3. computer terminal (device for entering data into a computer)

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis, from Latin terminus.

terminal m or f (plural terminais, comparable)

1. relating to or occurring during the conclusion or end of something
2. (of a disease) terminal (resulting in death)

terminal m (plural terminais)

1. terminal (section of a station or airport where passengers board the vehicle or craft)
2. (electronics) terminal (the end of a line where signals are transmitted or received)
3. (computing) terminal (device for entering and displaying data)
4. (computing) terminal (computer program that emulates a terminal)

Borrowed from Late Latin terminālis, from Latin terminus.

• IPA^(key): /termiˈnal/, [t̪ermiˈnal]

terminal (plural terminales)

1. final, last

   Synonyms: último, final

   Antonym: primero

2. terminal, fatal (resulting in death)
3. terminally ill

• paraterminal

terminal m or f (plural terminales)

1. terminal (a building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to airplanes)
2. terminal (a device for entering data into a computer)

• terminar
• término

• “terminal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.