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terminal
noun
1 terminal
Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods.
synonyms: depot, terminus.
Roget 292:
arrival,
advent;
landing;
debarkation,
disembarkation;
reception,
welcome,
vin d'honneur [Fr.].
home,
goal,
goalpost;
landing place,
landing stage;
bunder†;
resting place;
destination,
harbor,
haven,
port,
airport,
spaceport;
terminus,
halting place,
halting ground,
landing strip,
runway,
terminal;
journey's end;
anchorage
etc.
(refuge)
666.
return,
remigration†;
meeting;
rencounter†,
encounter.
completion
etc.
729.
recursion [Comp.].
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Dutch: terminal, tussenstation
Polish: stacja
2 terminal
A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
synonym: pole.
3 terminal
Either extremity of something that has length:
— The terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix.
synonym: end.
Dutch: eind, einde, uiteinde
Polish: zakończenie
4 terminal
Electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display.
Dutch: terminal
adjective
1 terminal
2 terminal
Relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time.
3 terminal
Being or situated at an end.
4 terminal
Occurring at or forming an end or termination:
— Terminal leave.
synonyms: concluding, final, last.
Roget 67:
ending
etc.
v.;
final,
terminal,
definitive;
crowning
etc.
(completing)
729;
last,
ultimate;
hindermost†;
rear
etc.
235;
caudal;
vergent†.
conterminate†,
conterminous,
conterminable†.
ended
etc.
v.;
at an end;
settled,
decided,
over,
played out,
set at rest;
conclusive.
penultimate;
last but one,
last but two,
etc.
unbegun,
uncommenced†;
fresh.
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5 terminal
Causing or ending in or approaching death.
Polish: terminalny
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