1. Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
   "Passengers hurried through the busy bus terminal to catch their connections";
   - terminus, depot
    
2. A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
   "He connected the wire to the positive terminal of the battery";
   - pole
    
3. Electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
   "The library had several computer terminals available for public use"
    
4. Either extremity of something that has length
   "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix";
   - end

1. Being or situated at an end
   "terminal buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal syllable";
   - endmost
    
2. Causing or ending in or approaching death
   "a terminal patient"; "terminal cancer"
    
3. Of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
   "freight pickup is a terminal service"; "terminal charges"
    
4. Relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
   "terminal examinations"; "terminal payments"
    
5. Occurring at or forming an end or termination
   "terminal leave";
   - concluding, final, last

Derived forms: terminals

See also: closing, fatal, killing

Type of: contact, electronic equipment, extremity, station, tangency

Part of: battery, electric battery, electrical device, transit [N. Amer], transportation, transportation system

Encyclopedia: Terminal