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单词 terminus
释义 terminus
n. (pl. termini or terminuses)
  1. a station at the end of a railway or bus route.
  2. a point at the end of a pipeline etc.
  3. a final point, a goal.
  4. a starting-point.
  5. Math. the end-point of a vector etc.
  6. Archit. a figure of a human bust or an animal ending in a square pillar from which it appears to spring, orig. as a boundary-marker.
Phrases and idioms
terminus ad quem the finishing-point of an argument, policy, period, etc. terminus ante quem the finishing-point of a period. terminus a quo the starting-point of an argument, policy, period, etc. terminus post quem the starting-point of a period.
Etymology: L, = end, limit, boundary
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