English Explanatory Dictionary

terminal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
  2. A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
  3. A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
  4. A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
  5. A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
  6. A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
  7. The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
  8. An electric contact on a battery.
  9. The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
  10. A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
  11. A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
  12. A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
adj
  1. Fatal; resulting in death.
  2. Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
  3. Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
  4. Occurring every term; termly.
verb
  1. To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɚmɪnəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-terminal.wav

Word forms

terminal terminals more terminal most terminal terminaling terminalling terminaled terminalled

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *ter-? Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥der. Proto-Italic *termenos Late Latin terminus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Late Latin -ālis Late Latin terminālisbor. English terminal Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.

Synonyms

endly final late endsome

Antonyms

non-terminal early initial

Related words

term terminable terminate terminus

Derived words

air terminal betting terminal block-oriented terminal cable terminal coterminal credit card terminal C-terminal data terminal equipment dumb terminal Earth terminal glass terminal handheld terminal intelligent terminal N-terminal oil terminal payment terminal POS terminal rail terminal smart terminal terminal station terminal strip video lottery terminal amino-terminal carboxy-terminal non-terminal symbol terminal acetylene terminal bronchiole terminal burrowing terminal cisterna terminal control area terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase terminal figure terminal hair terminal illness terminal leave terminally terminal moraine terminal object terminal rally terminal s terminal sedation terminal stria terminal tackle terminal velocity

Translations

Bulgarian: термина́л Finnish: pää Finnish: päätepiste French: terminal Macedonian: термина́л Māori: kāpeka Russian: термина́л Turkish: uçbirim
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