What is "terminal"

Terminal \Ter"mi*nal\ (-nal), a. [L. terminals: cf. F. terminal. See Term, n.]

1. Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.

2. (Bot.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike.

3. (Railroads) Pertaining to a railroad terminal; connected with the receipt or delivery of freight; as, terminal charges. Terminal moraine. See the Note under Moraine. Terminal statue. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3. Terminal velocity.

   1. The velocity acquired at the end of a body's motion.

   2. The limit toward which the velocity of a body approaches, as of a body falling through the air.

Terminal \Ter"mi*nal\, n.

1. That which terminates or ends; termination; extremity.

2. (Eccl.) Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.

3. (Railroads)

   1. The end of a line of railroad, with the switches, stations, sheds, and other appliances pertaining thereto.

   2. Any station for the delivery or receipt of freight lying too far from the main line to be served by mere sidings.

   3. A rate charged on all freight, independent of the 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 terminal charge.

   4. A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; -- more properly called a terminus.

4. The station at either end of a bus line line which transports freight or passengers.

5. A station where passenger buses start or end a trip; -- also called bus terminal.

6. The structure at an airport where passengers board or debark, and where ticket purchases and baggage pickup is performed; -- also called airline terminal.

7. (Computers) An electronic device where data may be entered into a computer, and information received from it, usually consisting of a keyboard and video display unit (monitor); the terminal may be integrated or connected directly to a computer, or connected by a communications circuit with a computer at a remote location; -- also called computer terminal.

   freight terminal, a terminal used for loading or unloading of freight.

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.

"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).

a. 1 (sense: illness) fatal; resulting in death. 2 Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object. 3 Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time. n. 1 A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes. 2 A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City. 3 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. 4 A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus. 5 (context electronics English) the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus. 6 An electric contact on a battery. 7 (context telecommunications English) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device. 8 (context computing English) 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. 9 (context computing English) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. 10 (context computing theory English) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar. 11 (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptid.

1. n. station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods [syn: terminus, depot]

2. a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves [syn: pole]

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

1. adj. being or situated at an end; "the endmost pillar"; "terminal buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal syllable" [syn: endmost]

2. of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route; "freight pickup is a terminal service"; "terminal charges"

3. relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time; "terminal examinations"; "terminal payments"

4. occurring at or forming an end or termination; "his concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter"; "the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave" [syn: concluding, final, last]

5. causing or ending in or approaching death; "a terminal patient"; "terminal cancer"

Terminal may refer to:

In the context of telecommunications, a terminal is a device which ends a telecommunications link and is the point at which a signal enters and/or leaves a network. Examples of equipment containing network terminations are telephones, fax machines, computer terminals and network devices, printers and workstations.

Terminal is a medical thriller written by Robin Cook. The novel peeps into the boom and curse of biotechnology.

Terminal is a terminal emulator built for the Xfce desktop environment using GTK+. It is provided as part of the Xfce project, but it can be used in other X Window System environments as well. It supports tabs, customizable keyboard shortcuts ( key bindings), customizable colors, and window sizes. It was designed to replace GNOME Terminal, which depends on the GNOME libraries. Like GNOME Terminal, it is based on the VTE library.

Terminal was an American rock band from Mansfield, Texas.

Terminal (Terminal.app) is the terminal emulator included in the OS X operating system by Apple. Terminal originated in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, the predecessor operating systems of OS X.

As a terminal emulator, the application provides text-based access to the operating system, in contrast to the mostly graphical nature of the user experience of OS X, by providing a command line interface to the operating system when used in conjunction with a Unix shell, such as bash.

The preferences dialog for Terminal.app in OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and later offers choices for values of the TERM environment variable. Available options are ansi, dtterm, nsterm, rxvt, vt52, vt100, vt102, xterm, xterm-16color and xterm-256color, which differ from the OS X 10.5 (Leopard) choices by dropping the xterm-color and adding xterm-16color and xterm-256color. These settings do not alter the operation of Terminal, and the xterm settings do not match the behavior of xterm.

Terminal includes several features that specifically access OS X APIs and features. These include the ability to use the standard OS X Help search function to find manual pages and integration with Spotlight. Terminal was used by Apple as a showcase for OS X graphics APIs in early advertising of Mac OS X, offering a range of custom font and coloring options, including transparent backgrounds.

A terminal is the point at which a conductor from an electrical component, device or network comes to an end and provides a point of connection to external circuits. A terminal may simply be the end of a wire or it may be fitted with a connector or fastener. In network analysis, terminal means a point at which connections can be made to a network in theory and does not necessarily refer to any real physical object. In this context, especially in older documents, it is sometimes called a pole.

The connection may be temporary, as seen in portable equipment, may require a tool for assembly and removal, or may be a permanent electrical joint between two wires or devices.

All electric cells have two terminals. The first is the positive terminal and the second is the negative terminal. The positive terminal looks like a metal cap and the negative terminal looks like a metal disc. The current flows from the positive terminal, and out through the negative terminal, replicative of current flow (positive (+) to negative (-) flow).

Terminal is a family of monospaced raster typefaces. It is relatively small compared to Courier. It uses crossed zeros, and is designed to approximate the font normally used in MS-DOS or other text-based consoles such as on Linux. In Microsoft Windows, it is used as the default font in the Command Prompt.

Terminal font family contains fonts encoded in various DOS code pages, with multiple resolutions of the font for each code page. Fixedsys fonts of different code pages have different point sizes. Under DBCS Windows environment, specifying Terminal font may also cause application to use non-Terminal fonts when displaying texts.

In Windows 2000 or later, changing script setting in some application's font dialogue (e.g., Notepad, WordPad) causes Terminal font to look completely different, even under same font size. Similarly, changing language setting for Windows applications that do not support Unicode will alter the appearance of OEM/DOS scripted Terminal font.

Terminal is also the font that most text pads from ASCII art should be viewed as, because Terminal is often a visual font.

Terminal is based upon code page 437 and is not aligned with Unicode. Most of the characters in Terminal are the same as the characters used in code page 437, but some of the characters (most Greek letters and some box drawing characters) have been replaced by additional accented letters. However, if a font size of 5 pt. is used, the Greek letters and box drawing characters are still viewable.

"Terminal" is the debut single of British-American singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes, released in 1974. The song is included on his 1974 debut album, Widescreen.

"Terminal" is popular in the Philippines, and has subsequently been covered by Sharon Cuneta on the 2006 album Isn't It Romantic?, and Piolo Pascual on the 2009 album Decades.

In Cuneta's version, its lyrics are delivered from a female point of view; the line "I had to get home to the kids and the wife" was changed to "I had to get back to the kids and my life".

'''Terminal ' is a neighbourhood (barrio'') of Asunción, Paraguay.

Category:Neighbourhoods of Asunción

Terminal (stylised as TERMINAL) is Japanese singer Salyu's second original album, released on January 17, 2007. It is currently her most commercially successful album, peaking at number 2 on Oricon's album charts, and is her only album to receive a gold certification from the RIAJ. The recording sessions for the album ended on December 1, 2006.

terminal (commonly spelled with a lowercase "t") is a Danish rock/pop act from Denmark formed in 2007. Their music has been described as grunge and alternative pop/rock. The group consists of Thorsten Bæk (lead vocals, guitar), Henrik Engstrøm (backing vocals, bass) and Rasmus Ilsø (drums).

Terminal is the sixth and final novel in the Tunnels series, published in UK on 6 May 2013.

"Terminal" is a song by Japanese musician Ayumi Hamasaki. Produced by Dutch trance DJ Armin van Buuren, the song was released as a single from her fifteenth studio album Colours on October 1, 2014.

Terminal is the third full-length album by the Norwegian band Ancestral Legacy, released under Norwegian record label Whispering Voice Records on September 29, 2014.

Terminal is an album with less symphonic black metal elements than its distant predecessor Nightmare Diaries (2010), switching to a greater mix of gothic metal and doom metal, utilizing the usual mixture of light female vocals and harsh male vocals.

It's the first album with Mexican singer Isadora Cortina (guest musician in Trapped Within the Words), who joined the band after the longtime vocalist Elin Anita Omholt had an injury in a car accident in 2008.

Terminal is an upcoming American drama thriller film directed and written by Vaughn Stein. The film stars Margot Robbie, Max Irons, Dexter Fletcher, Simon Pegg, and Mike Myers.