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Definitions for Terminal

[1] situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
[2] occurring at or forming the end of a series, succession, or the like; closing; concluding.
[3] pertaining to or lasting for a term or definite period; occurring at fixed terms or in every term: terminal payments.
[4] pertaining to, situated at, or forming the terminus of a railroad.
[5] Botany . growing at the end of a branch or stem, as a bud or inflorescence.
[6] Architecture . noting a figure, as a herm or term, in the form of a bust upon a gaine.
[7] pertaining to or placed at a boundary, as a landmark.
[8] occurring at or causing the end of life: a terminal disease.
[9] Informal . utterly beyond hope, rescue, or saving: The undercapitalized project is a terminal problem.
[10] a terminal part of a structure; end or extremity.
[11] Railroads . a major assemblage of station, yard, maintenance, and repair facilities, as at a terminus, at which trains originate or terminate, or at which they are distributed or combined.
[12] Computers . any device for entering information into a computer or receiving information from it, as a keyboard with video display unit, either adjoining the computer or at some distance from it.
[13] a station on the line of a public carrier, as in a city center or at an airport, where passengers embark or disembark and where freight is received or discharged.
[14] Electricity . the mechanical device by means of which an electric connection to an apparatus is established. the point of current entry to, or point of current departure from, any conducting component in an electric circuit.
[15] Architecture . a herm or term. a carving or the like at the end of something, as a finial.
[16] of, being, or situated at an end, terminus, or boundary a terminal station ; terminal buds
[17] of, relating to, or occurring after or in a term terminal leave
[18] (of a disease) terminating in death terminal cancer
[19] informal extreme terminal boredom
[20] of or relating to the storage or delivery of freight at a warehouse a terminal service
[21] a terminating point, part, or place
[22] a point at which current enters or leaves an electrical device, such as a battery or a circuit a conductor by which current enters or leaves at such a point
[23] computing a device having input/output links with a computer but situated at a distance from the computer
[24] architect an ornamental carving at the end of a structure another name for term (def. 10)
[25] a point or station usually at the end of the line of a railway, serving as an important access point for passengers or freight a less common name for terminus
[26] a purpose-built reception and departure structure at the terminus of a bus, sea, or air transport route
[27] a site where raw material is unloaded, stored, in some cases reprocessed, and reloaded for further transportation, esp an onshore installation designed to receive offshore oil or gas from tankers or a pipeline
[28] physiol the smallest arteriole before its division into capillaries either of two veins that collect blood from the thalamus and surrounding structures and empty it into the internal cerebral vein the portion of a bronchiole just before it subdivides into the air sacs of the lungs

Words related to Terminal

lethal, fatal, incurable, station, depot, monitor, last, latter, lag, period, killing, ultimate, mortal, utmost, closing, latest, extreme, limiting, extremity, termination

Words nearby Terminal

term., termagant, terman, termer, terminable, terminal, terminal artery, terminal bar, terminal boutons, terminal bronchiole, terminal bud

Origin of Terminal

1480–90; late Middle English < Latin terminālis, equivalent to termin(us ) end, limit + -ālis -al1

Words that may be confused with Terminal

terminal, terminus

Other words from Terminal

ter·mi·nal·ly , adverb
in·ter·ter·mi·nal , adjective
non·ter·mi·nal , adjective
non·ter·mi·nal·ly , adverb
pre·ter·mi·nal , adjective
sub·ter·mi·nal , adjective
sub·ter·mi·nal·ly , adverb

Word origin for Terminal

C15: from Latin terminālis, from terminus end

Synonyms for Terminal

fatal, incurable, lethal, closing, extreme, killing, lag, last, latest, latter, limiting, mortal, period, ultimate, utmost, bounding, check out, concluding, eventual, hindmost, on way out