adj
Meaning 1
Fatal; resulting in death.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- terminal cancer
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Standard Lemma guide
terminal
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adj
Meaning 2
Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
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adj
Meaning 3
Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
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adj
Meaning 4
Occurring every term; termly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- a student's terminal fees
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noun
Meaning 5
A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Terminal 1 is for domestic flights, whereas Terminal 2 is for international flights.
- A shuttle service runs free of charge between the three terminals.
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noun
Meaning 6
A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
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noun
Meaning 7
A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
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noun
Meaning 8
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.
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noun
Meaning 9
A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
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noun
Meaning 10
A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
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noun
Meaning 11
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
Meaning 12
An electric contact on a battery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 13
The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications
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noun
Meaning 14
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 15
A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 16
A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, computing-theory, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 17
The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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verb
Meaning 18
To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.
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adjective
Meaning 19
being or situated at an end
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the endmost pillar
- terminal buds on a branch
- a terminal station
- the terminal syllable
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Antonyms: intermediate
adjective
Meaning 20
relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- terminal examinations
- terminal payments
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adjective
Meaning 21
of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- freight pickup is a terminal service
- terminal charges
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adjective satellite
Meaning 22
causing or ending in or approaching death
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a terminal patient
- terminal cancer
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adjective satellite
Meaning 23
occurring at or forming an end or termination
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his concluding words came as a surprise
- the final chapter
- the last days of the dinosaurs
- terminal leave
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Synonyms: concluding, final, last
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 24
station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: terminus, depot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: station
Narrower terms: air terminal, airport terminal, bus terminal, bus depot, bus station, coach station, cathode, railway station, railroad station, railroad terminal, train station, train depot, subway station
noun
Meaning 25
a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pole
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: contact, tangency
Narrower terms: anode, negative pole, positive pole
noun
Meaning 26
electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: electronic equipment
Narrower terms: job-oriented terminal, remote terminal, link-attached terminal, remote station, link-attached station
noun
Meaning 27
either extremity of something that has length
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: end
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: extremity
Narrower terms: bitter end, bitthead, heel, point, pole, magnetic pole, railhead, terminus, yardarm, nerve ending, nerve end, telomere, end point, endpoint, termination, finish, destination, goal, tip
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh2-? Proto-Indo-European *ter-? Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ Proto-Italic *termn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *term(e)nos Latin terminus Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin terminālisbor. English 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.
Across languages
Translations
180 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: terminaal — resulting in death
- Bulgarian: смъртоносен (smǎrtonosen) — resulting in death
- Catalan: terminal — resulting in death
- Finnish: terminaalinen — resulting in death
- Finnish: kuolemaan johtava — resulting in death
- Greek: καταληκτικός (kataliktikós) — resulting in death
- Greek: μοιραίος (moiraíos) — resulting in death
- Hebrew: סוֹפָנִי (sofaní) — resulting in death
- Hungarian: halálos — resulting in death
- Hungarian: végstádiumú — resulting in death
- Hungarian: végstádiumban lévő — resulting in death
- Japanese: 末期の (makki no) — resulting in death
- Macedonian: смрто́носен (smrtónosen) — resulting in death
- Polish: śmiertelny — resulting in death
- Russian: смерте́льный (smertélʹnyj) — resulting in death
- Swedish: dödlig — resulting in death
- Thai: ระยะสุดท้าย (rá-yá-sùt-táai) — resulting in death
- Thai: ระยะตรีทูต (rá-yá-dtrii-tûut) — resulting in death
- Bulgarian: краен (kraen) — appearing at the end
- Bulgarian: заключителен (zaključitelen) — appearing at the end
- Catalan: terminal — appearing at the end
- Finnish: loppu- — appearing at the end
- Finnish: huippu- — appearing at the end
- Finnish: terminaalinen — appearing at the end
- French: terminal — appearing at the end
- Greek: τελικός (telikós) — appearing at the end
- Greek: ληκτικός (liktikós) — appearing at the end
- Greek: έσχατος (éschatos) — appearing at the end
- Hungarian: végső — appearing at the end
- Hungarian: végletes — appearing at the end
- Japanese: 末期の (makki no) — appearing at the end
- Macedonian: кра́ен (kráen) — appearing at the end
- Polish: końcowy — appearing at the end
- Polish: graniczny — appearing at the end
- Russian: коне́чный (konéčnyj) — appearing at the end
- Thai: ส่วนท้าย (sùuan-táai) — appearing at the end
- Thai: ส่วนปลาย (sùuan-bplaai) — appearing at the end
- Hungarian: (end-of-word) szóvégi — occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- Hungarian: (end-of-sentence) mondatvégi — occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- Hungarian: mondatzáró — occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- Thai: ตัวสะกด (dtuua-sà-gòt) — occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- Afrikaans: terminaal — airport building
- Afrikaans: lughaweterminaal — airport building
- Azerbaijani: aerovağzal — airport building
- Belarusian: аэравакза́л (aeravakzál) — airport building
- Belarusian: тэрміна́л (terminál) — airport building
- Bulgarian: термина́л (terminál) — airport building
- Catalan: terminal — airport building
- Chinese Mandarin: 航站 (hángzhàn) — airport building
- Chinese Mandarin: 航廈 /航厦 (hángshà) — airport building
- Czech: terminál — airport building
- Danish: terminal — airport building
- Finnish: terminaali — airport building
- French: terminal — airport building
- French: aérogare — airport building
- Galician: terminal — airport building
- German: Terminal — airport building
- Greek: τερματικός σταθμός (termatikós stathmós) — airport building
- Hebrew: בֵּית נְתִיבוֹת (bet netivót) — airport building
- Hebrew: טֶרְמִינָל (términal) — airport building
- Hungarian: terminál — airport building
- Italian: terminal — airport building
- Italian: terminale — airport building
- Italian: aerostazione — airport building
- Italian: aviostazione — airport building
- Japanese: ターミナル (tāminaru) — airport building
- Japanese: エアターミナル (ea tāminaru) — airport building
- Japanese: 空港ターミナル (kūkō tāminaru) — airport building
- Kazakh: терминал (terminal) — airport building
- Korean: 터미널 (teomineol) — airport building
- Korean: 공항 터미널 (gonghang teomineol) — airport building
- Macedonian: термина́л (terminál) — airport building
- Macedonian: авиотермина́л (avioterminál) — airport building
- Norwegian Bokmål: terminal — airport building
- Norwegian Nynorsk: terminal — airport building
- Polish: terminal — airport building
- Portuguese: terminal — airport building
- Romanian: terminal — airport building
- Russian: аэровокза́л (aerovokzál) — airport building
- Russian: термина́л (terminál) — airport building
- Southern Altai: терминал (terminal) — airport building
- Spanish: terminal — airport building
- Swedish: terminal — airport building
- Thai: อาคารผู้โดยสาร (aa-kaan-pûu-dooi-sǎan) — airport building
- Turkish: terminal — airport building
- Ukrainian: аеровокза́л (aerovokzál) — airport building
- Ukrainian: терміна́л (terminál) — airport building
- Uzbek: aerovokzal — airport building
- Vietnamese: nhà ga — airport building
- Bulgarian: кра́йна га́ра (krájna gára) — last railway station on a line
- Catalan: terminal — last railway station on a line
- Chinese Mandarin: 終點站 /终点站 (zhōngdiǎnzhàn) — last railway station on a line
- Chinese Mandarin: 總站 /总站 (zǒngzhàn) — last railway station on a line
- Esperanto: finstacio — last railway station on a line
- Finnish: pääteasema — last railway station on a line
- French: terminus — last railway station on a line
- German: Endbahnhof — last railway station on a line
- German: Endstation — last railway station on a line
- Hungarian: végállomás — last railway station on a line
- Japanese: 終着駅 (shūchakueki) — last railway station on a line
- Korean: 종착역 (jongchagyeok) — last railway station on a line
- Korean: 종점 (jongjeom) — last railway station on a line
- Macedonian: кра́јна ста́ница (krájna stánica) — last railway station on a line
- Polish: dworzec czołowy — last railway station on a line
- Portuguese: terminal — last railway station on a line
- Romanian: terminus — last railway station on a line
- Russian: коне́чная ста́нция (konéčnaja stáncija) — last railway station on a line
- Scottish Gaelic: ceann-rèile — last railway station on a line
- Thai: สถานีปลายทาง (sà-tǎa-nii-bplaai-taang) — last railway station on a line
- Turkish: son durak — last railway station on a line
- Bulgarian: термина́л (terminál) — computing - the end of a line of signals
- Finnish: pää — computing - the end of a line of signals
- Finnish: päätepiste — computing - the end of a line of signals
- French: terminal — computing - the end of a line of signals
- Macedonian: термина́л (terminál) — computing - the end of a line of signals
- Māori: kāpeka — computing - the end of a line of signals
- Russian: термина́л (terminál) — computing - the end of a line of signals
- Turkish: uçbirim — computing - the end of a line of signals
- Belarusian: тэрміна́л (terminál) — device for entering data into a computer
- Bulgarian: термина́л (terminál) — device for entering data into a computer
- Catalan: terminal — device for entering data into a computer
- Chinese Mandarin: 終端機 /终端机 (zhōngduānjī) — device for entering data into a computer
- Chinese Mandarin: 末端 (mòduān) — device for entering data into a computer
- Czech: terminál — device for entering data into a computer
- Esperanto: terminalo — device for entering data into a computer
- Finnish: pääte — device for entering data into a computer
- French: terminal — device for entering data into a computer
- German: Terminal — device for entering data into a computer
- Greek: τερματικό (termatikó) — device for entering data into a computer
- Hindi: टर्मिनल (ṭarminal) — device for entering data into a computer
- Hungarian: terminál — device for entering data into a computer
- Icelandic: skipanalína — device for entering data into a computer
- Icelandic: stjórnborð — device for entering data into a computer
- Indonesian: terminal — device for entering data into a computer
- Japanese: 端末 (tanmatsu) — device for entering data into a computer
- Japanese: ターミナル (tāminaru) — device for entering data into a computer
- Japanese: 端末機 (tanmatsuki) — device for entering data into a computer
- Korean: 단말 (danmal) — device for entering data into a computer
- Korean: 터미널 (teomineol) — device for entering data into a computer
- Korean: 단말기 (danmalgi) — device for entering data into a computer
- Macedonian: термина́л (terminál) — device for entering data into a computer
- Persian: ترمینال (terminâl) — device for entering data into a computer
- Polish: terminal — device for entering data into a computer
- Portuguese: terminal — device for entering data into a computer
- Romanian: terminal — device for entering data into a computer
- Romanian: periferic — device for entering data into a computer
- Russian: термина́л (terminál) — device for entering data into a computer
- Spanish: terminal — device for entering data into a computer
- Swedish: terminal — device for entering data into a computer
- Thai: เครื่องปลายทาง (krʉ̂ʉang-bplaai-taang) — device for entering data into a computer
- Thai: เครื่องเทอร์มินัล (krʉ̂ʉang-təə-mí-nâl) — device for entering data into a computer
- Thai: เทอร์มินัล (təə-mí-nâl) — device for entering data into a computer
- Turkish: uçbirim — device for entering data into a computer
- Turkish: terminal — device for entering data into a computer
- Ukrainian: терміна́л (terminál) — device for entering data into a computer
- Afrikaans: rekenaarterminaal — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Belarusian: тэрміна́л (terminál) — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Bulgarian: термина́л (terminál) — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Chinese Mandarin: 終端 /终端 (zhōngduān) — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Finnish: terminaali — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Finnish: terminaaliemulaattori — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Finnish: pääte-emulaattori — computer program that emulates a terminal
- French: terminal — computer program that emulates a terminal
- German: Terminal — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Greek: τερματικό (termatikó) — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Icelandic: skipanalína — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Icelandic: stjórnborð — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Japanese: ターミナル (tāminaru) — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Kazakh: терминал (terminal) — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Macedonian: термина́л (terminál) — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Polish: terminal — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Portuguese: terminal — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Russian: термина́л (terminál) — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Swedish: terminal — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Thai: โปรแกรมเลียนแบบเทอร์มินัล (bproo-grɛm-liian-bɛ̀ɛp-təə-mí-nâl) — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Thai: โปรแกรมเทอร์มินัล (bproo-grɛm-təə-mí-nâl) — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Ukrainian: терміна́л (terminál) — computer program that emulates a terminal
- Spanish: terminal — electronics
- Spanish: borne — electronics
- Spanish: borna — electronics
Real reading context