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’.