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Terminal   /tˈərmənəl/   Listen
noun
Terminal  n.  
1.
That which terminates or ends; termination; extremity.
2.
(Eccl.) Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.
3.
(Railroads)
(a)
The end of a line of railroad, with the switches, stations, sheds, and other appliances pertaining thereto.
(b)
Any station for the delivery or receipt of freight lying too far from the main line to be served by mere sidings.
(c)
A rate charged on all freight, independent of the 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; a terminal charge.
(d)
A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
4.
The station at either end of a bus line line which transports freight or passengers.
5.
A station where passenger buses start or end a trip; also called bus terminal.
6.
The structure at an airport where passengers board or debark, and where ticket purchases and baggage pickup is performed; also called airline terminal.
7.
(Computers) An electronic device where data may be entered into a computer, and information received from it, usually consisting of a keyboard and video display unit (monitor); the terminal may be integrated or connected directly to a computer, or connected by a communications circuit with a computer at a remote location; also called computer terminal.
freight terminal, a terminal used for loading or unloading of freight.


adjective
Terminal  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.
2.
(Bot.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike.
3.
(Railroads) Pertaining to a railroad terminal; connected with the receipt or delivery of freight; as, terminal charges.
Terminal moraine. See the Note under Moraine.
Terminal statue. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.
Terminal velocity.
(a)
The velocity acquired at the end of a body's motion.
(b)
The limit toward which the velocity of a body approaches, as of a body falling through the air.





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... Grierson, General Manager of the Great Western, was the principal witness for the railway companies, and yeoman service he rendered. He presented the railway case with great ability, and his views were accepted on the important terminal question. In 1886 he published a book on Railway Rates, which was warmly welcomed by the Press and, in the words of Herepath's Journal, was "an exhaustive, able, and dispassionate resume of all the conflicting statements, claims, and interests verging round ...
— Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland • Joseph Tatlow
... He was scarcely a typical bullock driver, since fifteen years of that occupation had not brutalised his temper, nor ensanguined his vocabulary, nor frayed the terminal "g" from his participles. I knew him well, for we had been partners in dogflesh and colleagues in larceny when we were, as poets feign, nearer to heaven than in maturer life. And, wide as Riverina is, we often encountered fortuitously, and were always ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... della Soc. d. Nat.' Modena, 1867, p. 94.) has collected of its variability in man. It is occasionally quite absent, or again is largely developed. The passage is sometimes completely closed for half or two-thirds of its length, with the terminal part consisting of a flattened solid expansion. In the orang this appendage is long and convoluted: in man it arises from the end of the short caecum, and is commonly from four to five inches in length, being only about the third of an inch in diameter. ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... an old farm near the scene of the wreck, and installed my field-generator there. It runs through to the Hagraban Synthetics Works, about a hundred miles east of Thalna-Jarvizar. I have my this-line terminal in the girls' rest room at the durable plastics factory; handled that on a local police-power writ. Since then, I've been hunting for the nighthound. I think I can find it, but I'll need some special equipment, and a hypno-mech indoctrination. ...
— Police Operation • H. Beam Piper
... height of about two thousand feet, so that the range of vision was very wide. The sea behind us curved into the land in three great scallops, separated by acuminate promontories, whose terminal bluffs of sand were as yellow as gold. Away ahead the line of mountains, that we had noticed before, appeared as a dark sierra, and between it and the sea the country seemed to be very little broken by hills. Large forests were visible, but from our elevation it was impossible ...
— A Columbus of Space • Garrett P. Serviss


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