terminal
/ˈtɜːmɪnəl/US/ˈtɝmɪnəl/
terminal noun: a building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
Noun
terminal (plural terminals)
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- Terminal 1 is for domestic flights, whereas Terminal 2 is for international flights.
- A shuttle service runs free of charge between the three terminals.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
Adjective
terminal (comparative more terminal, superlative most terminal)
Verb
terminal (third-person singular simple present terminals, present participle (US) terminaling or (UK) terminalling, simple past and past participle (US) terminaled or (UK) terminalled)
- To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.
terminal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
terminal in Hindi
- device for entering data into a computer
- टर्मिनल ṭarminal
- appearing at the end
- अंतिम antim, अंत्य antya
terminal in Tamil
- airport building
- முனையம் muṉaiyam
- last railway station on a line
- முனையம் muṉaiyam
- device for entering data into a computer
- முனையம் muṉaiyam
- computer program that emulates a terminal
- முனையம் muṉaiyam
terminal in Marathi
- टर्मिनल
terminal in Urdu
- terminal, stand, stop, station, airport
- اڈا aḍḍā
More languagesFewer languages
- terminal in Bengali
- প্রান্ত, সীমা, অন্ত, অবসান
- terminal in Telugu
- టెర్మినల్, టర్మినల్
- terminal in Malayalam
- മാരകമായ, അതിതീവ്രമായ, അന്തിമമായ, അറ്റം
- terminal in Kannada
- ವಿಮಾನ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ, ವಿವರಣ ಘಟಕ ಗಣಕ, ಆದೇಶ ತೆರೆ, ಸಂಪರ್ಕಿಸುವ ಸಲಕರಣೆ
- terminal in Punjabi
- ਛੇਕੜ chekaṛ, چھیکڑ chekaṛ
- terminal in Gujarati
- ટર્મિનલ
- terminal in Odia
- ଟର୍ମିନାଲ, ଟର୍ମିନାଲ୍, ଟାର୍ମିନାଲ
- terminal in Nepali
- टर्मिनल
- terminal in Indonesian
- terminal
- terminal in Persian
- ترمینال terminâl
- terminal in Thai
- อาคารผู้โดยสาร aa-kaan-pûu-dooi-sǎan, สถานีปลายทาง sà-tǎa-nii-bplaai-taang, เครื่องปลายทาง krʉ̂ʉang-bplaai-taang, เครื่องเทอร์มินัล krʉ̂ʉang-təə-mí-nâl
- terminal in Vietnamese
- nhà ga
Examples of terminal in a sentence
- I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.
- Connect a second 24-ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
- One branch of English society drops its initial aitches, and another branch ignores its terminal gees.
Synonyms of terminal
Antonyms
Forms of terminal
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | terminals |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more terminal |
| superlative | most terminal |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | terminals |
| present participle US | terminaling |
| present participle UK | terminalling |
| past participle US | terminaled |
| past US | terminaled |
| past participle UK | terminalled |
| past UK | terminalled |
Origin of terminal
Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.
Words formed from terminal
- air terminal
- betting terminal
- block-oriented terminal
- cable terminal
- coterminal
- credit card terminal
- C-terminal
- data terminal equipment
- dumb terminal
- Earth terminal
- glass terminal
- handheld terminal
- intelligent terminal
- multiterminal
- neoterminal
- neuroterminal
- N-terminal
- oil terminal
- payment terminal
- POS terminal
- pseudoterminal
- rail terminal
- smart terminal
- terminal station
- terminal strip
- video lottery terminal
- videoterminal
- nonterminal
- abterminal
- amino-terminal
- biterminal
- carboxylterminal
- carboxyterminal
- carboxy-terminal
- diterminal
- dorsoterminal
- extraterminal
- frontoterminal
- interterminal
- intraterminal
- midterminal
- monoterminal
- non-terminal symbol
- preterminal
- subterminal
- supraterminal
- terminal acetylene
- terminal bronchiole
- terminal burrowing
- terminal cisterna
- terminal control area
- terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase
- terminal figure
- terminal hair
- terminal illness
- terminality
- terminalize
- terminal leave
- terminally
- terminal moraine
Phrases with terminal
- terminal s
- terminal hairs
- terminal rally
- terminal stria
- terminal leaves
- terminal object
- terminal striae
- terminal symbol
- terminal tackle
- terminal figures
- terminal objects
- terminal symbols
15 more phrasesFewer phrases
- terminal lucidity
- terminal moraines
- terminal sedation
- terminal velocity
- hand-held terminal
- terminal cisternae
- terminal illnesses
- terminal acetylenes
- terminal lucidities
- terminal velocities
- terminal bronchioles
- terminal control areas
- data terminal equipments
- Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
- terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferases
Questions about terminal
- What does terminal mean?
- Terminal means a building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- What is terminal in Hindi?
- Terminal in Hindi is टर्मिनल (ṭarminal), अंतिम (antim), अंत्य (antya). See Terminal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is terminal?
- Terminal can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce terminal?
- Terminal is pronounced /ˈtɜːmɪnəl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of terminal?
- The plural of terminal is terminals.
Words near terminal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: terminal (page history and authors); terminal (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); اڈا (Urdu) (page history and authors); terminal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); terminal (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); terminal (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); terminal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); چھیکڑ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); terminal (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); terminal (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); terminal (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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