# Terminal

Terminal may refer to:

## Computing
### Hardware

* Computer terminal, a set of primary input and output devices for a computer
* Terminal (electronics), a device for joining electrical circuits together
** Battery terminal, electrical contact used to connect a load or charger to a single cell or multiple-cell battery
* Terminal (telecommunication), a device communicating over a line
* Feedback terminal, a physical device used collect anonymous feedback

### Software

* Terminal emulator, a program that emulates a computer terminal within some other display architecture
** Terminal (macOS), a terminal emulator included with macOS
** Windows Terminal, a terminal emulator for Windows 10 and Windows 11
** GNOME Terminal, a Linux and BSD terminal emulator
* Terminal and nonterminal symbols, lexical elements used in specifying the production rules constituting a formal grammar in computer science.

### Fonts

* Terminal (typeface), a monospace font
* Terminal (typography), a type of stroke ending

## Transportation

* Airport terminal, a building where passengers embark and disembark aircraft (or cargo is loaded)
* Bus terminal
* Passenger terminal (maritime), a structure where passenger water vessels ships pick up and drop off passengers
* Container port, also called a terminal, where cargo containers are transferred between different vehicles or ships
* Railroad terminal, the end point of a railroad line

## Places

* Terminal (Asunción), a neighbourhood in Paraguay
* Terminal Peak, a mountain in Tasmania, Australia
* Terminal Peak (Antarctica), a mountain in Ricker Hills, Oates Land, Antarctica
* Terminal Range, a mountain range in Canada

## Media
### Film and TV

* The Terminal, 2004 American comedy-drama film
* Terminal (film), a 2018 British international film starring Margot Robbie
* "Terminal", an episode of Law & Order
* "Terminal" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), a television episode

### Music

* Terminal (American band), a rock band from Texas
* terminal (Danish band), a pop rock band from Copenhagen
* Terminal (Ancestral Legacy album), 2014
* Terminal (Salyu album), 2007
* "Terminal" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), 2014
* "Terminal" (Rupert Holmes song), 1974
* "Terminals", a song by Relient K featuring Adam Young

## Literature

* Terminal (Cook novel), by Robin Cook
* Terminal (Tunnels novel), a 2013 novel in the Tunnels series
* Terminal, a novel by Colin Forbes
* The Terminal Man, 1972 novel by Michael Crichton
   * The Terminal Man (film), film adaptation by Mike Hodges
* The Terminal Man, autobiography of Mehran Karimi Nasseri

## Other uses

* Terminal illness, a progressive disease that is expected to cause death
* Terminal velocity, in physics
* Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, an American anti-ballistic missile defence system
* Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, a specialized DNA polymerase
* Terminal sedation, another name for palliative sedation, the practice of inducing unconsciousness in a terminally ill person for the remainder of the person's life
* Terminal, relating to the location of a flower or other feature in botany
* Potsdam Conference, code-named “Terminal”, the last Allied meeting of World War II
* Suffix, in grammar