ALL meanings of terminal
ter·mi·nal
T t - noun terminal airport 1
- noun terminal train, bus 1
- noun terminal computer: access point 1
- adjective terminal ending in death 1
- adjective terminal at the end 1
- noun terminal electrical 1
- adjective terminal situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista. 1
- adjective terminal occurring at or forming the end of a series, succession, or the like; closing; concluding. 1
- adjective terminal pertaining to or lasting for a term or definite period; occurring at fixed terms or in every term: terminal payments. 1
- adjective terminal pertaining to, situated at, or forming the terminus of a railroad. 1
- adjective terminal Botany. growing at the end of a branch or stem, as a bud or inflorescence. 1
- adjective terminal Architecture. noting a figure, as a herm or term, in the form of a bust upon a gaine. 1
- adjective terminal pertaining to or placed at a boundary, as a landmark. 1
- adjective terminal occurring at or causing the end of life: a terminal disease. 1
- adjective terminal Informal. utterly beyond hope, rescue, or saving: The undercapitalized project is a terminal problem. 1
- noun terminal a terminal part of a structure; end or extremity. 1
- noun terminal 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. 1
- noun terminal 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. 1
- noun terminal 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. 1
- noun terminal 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. 1
- noun terminal Architecture. a herm or term. a carving or the like at the end of something, as a finial. 1
- adjective terminal growing at the end of a stem or branch 0
- noun terminal a terminating part; end; extremity; limit 0
- noun terminal a connective device or point in or attached to an electric circuit or conductor 0
- noun terminal either end of a transportation line, as for an airplane, bus, or railroad, including servicing facilities, etc. 0
- noun terminal a station or city located there 0
- noun terminal a station at any important point or junction of a transportation line 0
- noun terminal a device, usually with a typewriter keyboard and a video screen, for putting information into, or getting it from, a computer, as over communication lines 0
- noun terminal an ornamental carving at the end of a structural element 0
- adjective terminal A terminal illness or disease causes death, often slowly, and cannot be cured. 0
- adjective terminal A terminal patient is dying of a terminal illness or disease. 0
- countable noun terminal A terminal is a place where vehicles, passengers, or goods begin or end a journey. 0
- countable noun terminal A computer terminal is a piece of equipment consisting of a keyboard and a screen that is used for putting information into a computer or getting information from it. 0
- countable noun terminal On a piece of electrical equipment, a terminal is one of the points where electricity enters or leaves it. 0
- adjective terminal of, being, or situated at an end, terminus, or boundary 0
- adjective terminal of, relating to, or occurring after or in a term 0
- adjective terminal (of a disease) terminating in death 0
- adjective terminal extreme 0
- adjective terminal of or relating to the storage or delivery of freight at a warehouse 0
- noun terminal a terminating point, part, or place 0
- noun terminal a point at which current enters or leaves an electrical device, such as a battery or a circuit 0
- noun terminal a conductor by which current enters or leaves at such a point 0
- noun terminal a device having input/output links with a computer but situated at a distance from the computer 0
- noun terminal an ornamental carving at the end of a structure 0
- noun terminal a point or station usually at the end of the line of a railway, serving as an important access point for passengers or freight 0
- noun terminal a purpose-built reception and departure structure at the terminus of a bus, sea, or air transport route 0
- noun terminal 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 0
- noun terminal the smallest arteriole before its division into capillaries 0
- noun terminal either of two veins that collect blood from the thalamus and surrounding structures and empty it into the internal cerebral vein 0
- noun terminal the portion of a bronchiole just before it subdivides into the air sacs of the lungs 0