terminal

Adjective
  1. Of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route (synset 302823245)
    "freight pickup is a terminal service"; "terminal charges"
  2. Relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time (synset 302823086)
    "terminal examinations"; "terminal payments"
  3. Being or situated at an end (synset 301019627)
    "the endmost pillar"; "terminal buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal syllable"
  4. Occurring at or forming an end or termination (synset 301013868)
    "his concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter"; "the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave"
    similar to: closing - final or ending
    same as: concluding, final, last
  5. Causing or ending in or approaching death (synset 300997423)
    "a terminal patient"; "terminal cancer"
    similar to: fatal - bringing death
Noun
  1. Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods (synset 104420036)
    is a type of: station - a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
    subtypes:
    is a part of: transit, transportation, transportation system - a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
    same as: depot, terminus
  2. A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves (synset 104420286)
    is a type of: contact, tangency - (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact
    subtypes:
    • anode - the negatively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current
    • negative pole - the terminal of a battery that is connected to the negative plate
    • positive pole - the terminal of a battery that is connected to the positive plate
    is a part of:
    • battery, electric battery - a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
    • electrical device - a device that produces or is powered by electricity
    same as: pole
  3. Either extremity of something that has length (synset 108583557)
    "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix"
    is a type of: extremity - the outermost or farthest region or point
    subtypes:
    • bitter end - (nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt
    • bitthead - the upper end of a bitt
    • heel - the lower end of a ship's mast
    • point - sharp end
    • magnetic pole, pole - one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated
    • railhead - the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway
    • terminus - either end of a railroad or bus route
    • yardarm - either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship
    • nerve end, nerve ending - the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse
    • telomere - either (free) end of a eukaryotic chromosome
    • heel - one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread
    • end point, endpoint, termination, terminus - a place where something ends or is complete
    • destination, finish, goal - the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
    • tip - the extreme end of something; especially something pointed
    same as: end
  4. Electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer;
    Has a keyboard and display (synset 104420554)
    is a type of: electronic equipment - equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor)
    subtypes:
    has: keyboard - device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like

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