terminal
pronunciation
How to pronounce terminal in British English:
UK [ˈtɜːmɪnl]
How to pronounce terminal in American English:
US [ˈtɜːrmɪnl]
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- Noun:
- 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
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
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- Adjective:
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- causing or ending in or approaching death
Word Origin
- terminal (adj.)
- mid-15c., "relating to or marking boundaries," from Latin terminalis "pertaining to a boundary or end, final," from terminus "end, boundary line" (see terminus). Meaning "fatal" (terminal illness) is first recorded 1891. Sense of "situated at the extreme end" (of something) is from 1805. Slang meaning "extreme" first recorded 1983. Related: Termninally.
- terminal (n.)
- "end point of a railway line," 1888, from terminal (adj.); sense of "device for communicating with a computer" is first recorded 1954. Earlier "final part of a word" (1831).
Synonym
Example
- 1. Passengers board the computer-controlled , zero-emission pods at the terminal .
- 2. The inreal terminal is an innovation for use in architecture .
- 3. According to one report , the airport terminal roof had collapsed .
- 4. Three years later he learned he had terminal cancer .
- 5. Elements , hong kong 's newest shopping mall , was built above a train and bus terminal that connects the kowloon district directly to shenzhen airport , on the chinese mainland .