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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



... southern border of the moon, and in the direction followed by the projectile, a few brilliant points outlined against the dark screen of the sky. They looked like a succession of sharp peaks with profiles in a tremulous line. They were rather brilliant. The terminal line of the moon looks the same when she is in ...
— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne
... revolver, and picking up the torch went into the terminal chamber. Four shots fired in quick succession reverberated immediately ...
— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully
... rounds, and Scarlet, which in the beginning had trailed applause behind it as a torch trails smoke, lagged now a little to the rear. Green was leading. Its leadership did not seem to please; it was cursed at and abused, threatened with naked fist; yet when for the sixth time it turned the terminal pillar, a shout that held the thunder of Atlas leaped abroad. Where the yellow car, pursued by the blue, had been, was now a mass of sickening agitation—twelve fallen horses kicking each other into pulp, the drivers brained already; ...
— Mary Magdalen • Edgar Saltus
... grand chorus by the audience standing; following this, precisely at 7:30 was the half-hour lecture-prelude on some scientific or practical subject. Among the topics treated were "Wrongs of Workingmen, and How to Right Them," "The Terminal Glacier," "Sewerage and Ventilation," "The Pyramids," "Wonders of the House we Live in," "Architecture ...
— The Harris-Ingram Experiment • Charles E. Bolton
... November 6, White lost one shilling "at cards, in common room." He went from Selborne to Oxford, "in a post-chaise with Jenny Croke"; and he gave Jenny a "round Chinaturene." Tea cost eight shillings a pound in 1752, while rum-punch was but half a crown a bowl. White's highest terminal battels were but 12 pounds, though he was a hospitable man, and would readily treat the other Proctor to a bowl of punch. It is well to remember White and Johnson when the Gibbon of that or any other day bewails the intellectual ...
— Oxford • Andrew Lang


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