adj.
- forming or situated at the end of something.
▸of or forming a transport terminal.
- (of a disease) predicted to lead to death.
▸having or relating to a terminal disease.
- informal extreme and irreversible.
- done or occurring each school, college, etc. term.
n.
- the end of a railway or other transport route, or a station at this point.
▸a departure and arrival building for passengers at an airport.
- a point of connection for closing an electric circuit.
- a device at which a user enters data or commands for a computer and which displays the received output.
- an installation where oil or gas is stored at the end of a pipeline or at a port.
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(also terminal figure)
Architecture a terminus.
- Brit. a patient with a terminal illness.
Derivative
Etymology
C19: from L. terminalis, from terminus ‘end, boundary’.