noun
- Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods.
- A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
- synonyms: pole
- Either extremity of something that has length.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: end
- Electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display.
adjective
- Of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route.
- usage: "freight pickup is a terminal service"; "terminal charges"
- Relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time.
- usage: "terminal examinations"; "terminal payments"
- Being or situated at an end.
- usage: "the endmost pillar"; "terminal buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal syllable"
- Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
- usage: "his concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter"; "the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave"
- synonyms: concluding, final, last
- Causing or ending in or approaching death.
- usage: "a terminal patient"; "terminal cancer"
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