What (who) is terminal - definition
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terminal
1. <hardware> An electronic or electromechanical device for
entering data into a computer or a communications system and
displaying data received. Early terminals were called
teletypes, later ones VDUs. Typically a terminal
communicates with the computer via a serial line.
2. <electronics> 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.
3. <electronics> Apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a
line.
(1995-10-02)
terminal
n.
point on an electric circuit
1) a negative; positive terminal
device by which information enters or leaves a computer
2) a computer terminal; a Visual Display Terminal = VDT (AE; BE has Visual Display Unit = VDU)
passenger, freight station
3) an airline; bus; freight; shipping; trucking terminal
4) at a terminal (let's meet at the bus terminal)
terminal
(terminals)
1.
A terminal illness or disease causes death, often slowly, and cannot be cured.
...terminal cancer.
...his illness was terminal.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
• terminally
The patient is terminally ill.
ADV: ADV adj
2.
A terminal is a place where vehicles, passengers, or goods begin or end a journey.
Plans are underway for a fifth terminal at Heathrow airport.
N-COUNT: usu supp N
3.
A computer terminal is a piece of equipment consisting of a keyboard and a screen that is used for putting information into a computer or getting information from it. (COMPUTING)
Carl sits at a computer terminal 40 hours a week.
N-COUNT
4.
On a piece of electrical equipment, a terminal is one of the points where electricity enters or leaves it.
...the positive terminal of the battery.
N-COUNT
Pronunciation examples for terminal
1. terminal.
Stop Spending, Start Managing _ Leigh Thompson _ Talks at Google
2. "terminal."
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3. to the terminal building,
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4. They have terminal illnesses.
Being Mortal - Medicine and What Matters in the End _ Atul Gawande _ Talks at Google
5. on this display terminal.
Atypical Girl Geek _ Katherine Hitchcock _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of terminal
1. An engineering tender for the terminal, to be constructed next to the old terminal (Terminal 1), will also be issued.
2. The third terminal, 1–C will function in place of terminal 1–B, which will be closed after the new terminal is completed.
3. Terminal laborer Altaf Hussain says several militants stormed the Bilal terminal, firing grenades.
4. "During the time Terminal Two was closed, arriving passengers on Terminal Two airlines were disembarked with their luggage at Terminal One.
5. Pete Oil Terminal Gazprom and Surgutneftegaz may build a terminal near St.