terminal meaning
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[ˈtɚmɪnəl] WTerminal
- Terminal may refer to:
FR terminal 
- NounPLterminalsPREter-SUF-inal
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- 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.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (electronics) the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- (computing) 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.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptid.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- Adjective
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In the category of sets, a terminal object is any singleton, since there exists a unique function, namely the constant function, from any given set into that singleton.
- After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality.
- My earth science teacher in high school explained that Jamaica Avenue was situated on the geological terminal moraine, whereupon the glaciers of millions of years past deposited their detrita.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Species on this family can be identified by its mytiliform form, sometimes quadrate, with the hinge edentulous and the umbos anterior or terminal.
- The bus was on schedule when it left the terminal.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of terminal in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- fr terminal
- fr terminale
- en terminals
- en terminally
- fr terminales
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "terminal" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.