terminal

Meanings

• station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
• a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
• either extremity of something that has length
  • "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix"
• electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
• of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
  • "freight pickup is a terminal service"
  • "terminal charges"
• relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
  • "terminal examinations"
  • "terminal payments"
• being or situated at an end
  • "terminal buds on a branch"
  • "a terminal station"
  • "the terminal syllable"
• occurring at or forming an end or termination
  • "terminal leave"
• causing or ending in or approaching death
  • "a terminal patient"
  • "terminal cancer"

Synonyms

concluding, depot, end, final, last, pole, terminus