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Terminal

noun

1.

Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods. Synonyms: depot, terminus.

2.

A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves. Synonym: pole.

3.

Either extremity of something that has length. Synonym: end. "She knotted the end of the thread" , "They rode to the end of the line" , "The terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix"

4.

Electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display.

adjective

1.

Of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route. "Terminal charges"

2.

Relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time. "Terminal payments"

3.

Being or situated at an end. "Terminal buds on a branch" , "A terminal station" , "The terminal syllable"

4.

Occurring at or forming an end or termination. Synonyms: concluding, final, last. "The final chapter" , "The last days of the dinosaurs" , "Terminal leave"

5.

Causing or ending in or approaching death. "Terminal cancer"

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"Terminal" Quotes from Famous Books

... filing out of the various doors, they began work. Peter had planned his debouchments so as to split the mob into sections, knowing that each fragment pushed back rendered the remainder less formidable. First a sally was made from the terminal station, and after two lines of troops had been thrown across Forty-second Street, the second was ordered to advance. Thus a great tongue of the mob, which stretched towards Third Avenue, was pressed back, almost to ...

— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford

... crowds and out into the soft flurry of the storm. Flakes like pulled-out bits of cotton floated to their shoulders, resting there. Seventh Avenue, for the instant before the eye left the great Greek facade of the Pennsylvania Terminal, was like a dream of Athens seen through the dapple of white shadows. Immediately the eye veered, however, the great cosmopolis formed by street meeting avenue tore down the illusion. Another block and second-hand clothing shops ...

— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

... in our time, and our architects are also engineers. We don't have to stop using a railroad terminal because a new station is being built. We don't have to stop any of the processes of our lives because we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the ...

— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson

... The yellow, dew-laid road down which I came still slumbered undisturbed; the village cows had not been milked, and the pasture slope, rounding with a feminine grace of curve and form, lay asleep, with its sedgy fingers trailing in the water; even the locomotive in the little terminal round-house over the hill was not awake and wheezing. But the creek people were stirring—except the frogs. They were growing sleepy. The long June night they had improved, soberly, philosophically; and now, seeing nothing worth while ...

— Roof and Meadow • Dallas Lore Sharp

... came from Malacca, and is jointed somewhat after the style of a Malacca cane, and of it the author says—"It is said that when the insect is attacked by its foe, or is in danger of attack, it has the power to protrude telescopically the tenth (terminal) segment, which has a mouth-like opening and a tongue-like organ which at once gives the creature the appearance of a snake. There is also a spot that answers to the appearance of an eye on the ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

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