terminal
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
business
communications
computing
computing-theory
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *ter-?
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥
Proto-Italic *termn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Proto-Italic *term(e)nos
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.
Inflected forms:
form: terminals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more terminal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most terminal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: terminals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: terminaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: terminalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: terminaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: terminaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: terminalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: terminalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
pos: noun
examples: Terminal 1 is for domestic flights, whereas Terminal 2 is for international flights.
A shuttle service runs free of charge between the three terminals.
gloss: A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
pos: noun
gloss: A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
pos: noun
gloss: A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: An electric contact on a battery.
pos: noun
gloss: The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
pos: noun
gloss: A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
pos: noun
gloss: The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
pos: noun
gloss: Fatal; resulting in death.
pos: adj
examples: terminal cancer
gloss: Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
pos: adj
gloss: Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
pos: adj
gloss: Occurring every term; termly.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: a student's terminal fees
gloss: To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.
pos: verb
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
multiterminal
neoterminal
neuroterminal
N-terminal
oil terminal
payment terminal
POS terminal
pseudoterminal
rail terminal
smart terminal
terminal station
terminal strip
video lottery terminal
videoterminal
nonterminal
abterminal
amino-terminal
biterminal
carboxylterminal
carboxyterminal
carboxy-terminal
diterminal
dorsoterminal
extraterminal
frontoterminal
interterminal
intraterminal
midterminal
monoterminal
non-terminal symbol
preterminal
subterminal
supraterminal
terminal acetylene
terminal bronchiole
terminal burrowing
terminal cisterna
terminal control area
terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase
terminal figure
terminal hair
terminal illness
terminality
terminalize
terminal leave
terminally
terminal moraine
terminal object
terminal rally
terminal s
terminal sedation
terminal stria
terminal tackle
terminal velocity
terminize
terminomics
triterminal
uniterminal
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: термина́л
roman: terminál
lang: Finnish
word: pää
lang: Finnish
word: päätepiste
lang: French
word: terminal
lang: Macedonian
word: термина́л
roman: terminál
lang: Māori
word: kāpeka
lang: Russian
word: термина́л
roman: terminál
lang: Turkish
word: uçbirim