situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
occurring at or forming the end of a series, succession, or the like; closing; concluding.
pertaining to or lasting for a term or definite period; occurring at fixed terms or in every term: terminal payments.
pertaining to, situated at, or forming the terminus of a railroad.
Botany. growing at the end of a branch or stem, as a bud or inflorescence.
Architecture. noting a figure, as a herm or term, in the form of a bust upon a gaine.
pertaining to or placed at a boundary, as a landmark.
occurring at or causing the end of life: a terminal disease.
Informal. utterly beyond hope, rescue, or saving: The undercapitalized project is a terminal problem.
noun
a terminal part of a structure; end or extremity.
Railroads. a major assemblage of station, yard, maintenance, and repair facilities, as at a terminus, at which trains originate or terminate, or at which they are distributed or combined.
Computers. any device for entering information into a computer or receiving information from it, as a keyboard with video display unit, either adjoining the computer or at some distance from it.
a station on the line of a public carrier, as in a city center or at an airport, where passengers embark or disembark and where freight is received or discharged.
Electricity.
the mechanical device by means of which an electric connection to an apparatus is established.
the point of current entry to, or point of current departure from, any conducting component in an electric circuit.
Architecture.
a herm or term.
a carving or the like at the end of something, as a finial.
Origin of terminal
1480–90; late Middle English <Latin terminālis, equivalent to termin(us) end, limit + -ālis-al1
Its plans to build an LNG-export terminal in Louisiana took a blow at the end of March 2020, when Shell, its 50-50 partner in the project, decided to pull out, citing adverse market conditions.
Rick Perry’s Ukrainian Dream|by Simon Shuster, TIME, and Ilya Marritz, WNYC|September 10, 2020|ProPublica
A few months later, the company signed a deal with Shell, the Dutch energy giant, to jointly develop the terminal at an estimated cost of about $11 billion.
Rick Perry’s Ukrainian Dream|by Simon Shuster, TIME, and Ilya Marritz, WNYC|September 10, 2020|ProPublica
Coronavirus infections were linked to a beluga whale that experienced lung disease and terminal liver failure, and Pacific harbor seals that died from pneumonia in 2000.
Everything we know—and don’t know—about human-to-animal COVID transmission|jakemeth|September 4, 2020|Fortune
This week, the company and several big name partners, including UPS and Penske, announced plans for an autonomous freight network of self-driving trucks, digitally mapped routes, terminals, and a central operations system to monitor the lot.
TuSimple’s Robot Big Rigs Will Automate Freight Coast to Coast|Jason Dorrier|July 5, 2020|Singularity Hub
With the rise of flies as proven test subjects, when Rogulja became curious about terminal sleep deprivation, it again seemed like a plausible thing to study.
But millions of rules result in perpetual error, and, as a terminal side effect, make leadership and accomplishment illegal.
Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Someone without a terminal illness can go through years and years of terrible suffering.
U.K. Courts Grant Mother Right to End Her 12-Year-Old Disabled Daughter’s Life|Elizabeth Picciuto|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Someone with a terminal illness will die soon anyway,” he said.
U.K. Courts Grant Mother Right to End Her 12-Year-Old Disabled Daughter’s Life|Elizabeth Picciuto|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Perhaps more than anything, what people fear most—aside from the pain of a terminal illness—is the loss of control.
On Her Own Terms: Why Brittany Maynard Has Chosen to Die|Gene Robinson|October 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The American public is more or less evenly split on the question of physician-assisted death in the case of terminal illness.
The Beautiful Newlywed Who Made the Right Change Its Mind on Physician-Assisted Death|Samantha Allen|October 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most of the terminal towns vanished completely when the railroad moved on.
The Last American Frontier|Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson
These two parts form a ring through which the terminal tendon of the fleshy portion of the same muscle passes.
Artistic Anatomy of Animals|douard Cuyer
In the use of punctuation marks; first of terminal marks, then of the marks within a sentence.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10|Charles Herbert Sylvester
So, getting rid of these initial and terminal superfluities, there remains Allart, or Alard.
Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia|Various
Between its terminal moraines and the older moraines we have skirted, a rather voluminous stream has eroded its valley.
Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2)|Sven Hedin
British Dictionary definitions for terminal
terminal
/ (ˈtɜːmɪnəl) /
adjective
of, being, or situated at an end, terminus, or boundarya terminal station; terminal buds
of, relating to, or occurring after or in a termterminal leave
(of a disease) terminating in deathterminal cancer
informalextremeterminal boredom
of or relating to the storage or delivery of freight at a warehousea terminal service
noun
a terminating point, part, or place
a point at which current enters or leaves an electrical device, such as a battery or a circuit
a conductor by which current enters or leaves at such a point
computinga device having input/output links with a computer but situated at a distance from the computer
architect
an ornamental carving at the end of a structure
another name for term (def. 10)
a point or station usually at the end of the line of a railway, serving as an important access point for passengers or freight
a less common name for terminus
a purpose-built reception and departure structure at the terminus of a bus, sea, or air transport route
a site where raw material is unloaded, stored, in some cases reprocessed, and reloaded for further transportation, esp an onshore installation designed to receive offshore oil or gas from tankers or a pipeline
physiol
the smallest arteriole before its division into capillaries
either of two veins that collect blood from the thalamus and surrounding structures and empty it into the internal cerebral vein
the portion of a bronchiole just before it subdivides into the air sacs of the lungs
A position in a circuit or device at which a connection can be made or broken. See Note at battery.
Computer ScienceA device, often equipped with a keyboard and a video display, by which one can read, enter, or manipulate information in a computer system.