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In travel and transport:

• Airport terminal, a building at an airport
• Terminal station, a passenger rail station
• Container terminal, a facility which handles shipping
• Pipeline terminal, a storage facility at the downstream end of a pipeline transport

In electronics, telecommunication, and computers: An airport terminal is a building at an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes. ... Terminal Station was also the name of a railway station in Chattanooga, Tennessee; see Chattanooga Choo Choo. ... A container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are loaded or unloaded from ships to land vehicles, for further transport. ...

• Terminal (application), a terminal emulator application included with Mac OS X
• Terminal (electronics), a device for joining electrical circuits together
• Terminal (font), a monospace font
• Terminal (telecommunication), a device communicating over a line
• Remote terminal unit (RTU), a telemetry device interfacing to a DCS or SCADA system
• Computer console, a text output device for system administration messages
• Computer terminal, a hardware device for data entry and display in a computer system
• Dumb terminal, a computer terminal that has limited functionality
• Pseudo terminal, a piece of code that routes a server I/O to and from some application, assuming that it will implement the text terminal behavior
• Terminal emulator, an application program replacing a computer terminal
• Text terminal, any computer interface for serial entry and display of textual data
• Virtual console (computer user-interface), a concept that permits multiple terminals on one hardware

In sciences: Terminal is an application included with Apples Mac OS X operating system. ... An electrical connector is a device for joining electrical circuits together. ... Terminal is a monospace font. ... In the context of telecommunications, a terminal is a device which is capable of communicating over a line. ... A RTU, or Remote Terminal Unit is a device which interfaces objects in the physical world to a DCS or SCADA system by transmitting telemetry data to the system and/or altering the state of connected objects based on control messages received from the system. ... The console is the text output device for system administration messages, particularly those from the BIOS or boot loader, the kernel, from the init system and from the system logger. ... A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Data terminal. ... Overview In Unix, a pseudo terminal is a kernel device pair that simulates an ordinary terminal but without the associated terminal hardware. ... Apple Terminal. ... A typical text terminal produces input and displays output and errors A text terminal or often just terminal (sometimes text console) is a serial computer interface for text entry and display. ... First virtual console showing Knoppix boot messages In some operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD, a virtual console (VC, sometimes virtual terminal, VT) is a conceptual combination of the keyboard and the display for a user interface. ...

• Terminal object, a type of object studied in category theory
• Leaf node in graphs, trees and computer programs, a node without children
• Terminal symbol in formal grammar, a symbol that cannot be further divided
• Polymer terminal in chemistry, the end residue on any polymer chain
• Terminal velocity in physics, the maximimum velocity of an object or body affected by gravitational force from a larger object at which it ceases to accelerate due usually to atmospheric drag (see also Terminal velocity (disambiguation))

Terminal may also refer to: In mathematics, an initial object of a category C is an object I in C such that to every object X in C, there exists precisely one morphism I → X. The dual notion is that of a terminal object: T is terminal, if to every object X in C... 9, 14, 19, 67 and 76 are leaf nodes. ... A terminal symbol, in BNF jargon, is a symbol that represents a constant value. ... A polymer is a substance composed of molecules with large molecular mass composed of repeating structural units, or monomers, connected by covalent chemical bonds. ... Terminal velocity is the speed reached by an object falling in an atmosphere when atmospheric drag equals the objects weight, which halts acceleration and causes speed to remain constant. ... Terminal velocity may refer to the following: Terminal velocity, (a) the final speed (usually an impact speed) achieved by an object at the end of its path (where gravity, applied physical acceleration and dragging effects may all play a part), and (b) in skydiving, the maximum speed achievable for a...

• Terminal (band) was an Alternative/Indie rock band form Texas, USA
• Terminal (film), the 2006 film written by Rock Shaink Jr. and directed by Fernando Beltran
• Terminal illness, a progressive disease that is expected to cause death
• Terminal (novel), a novel by Robin Cook
• Terminal (Colin Forbes novel), a novel by Colin Forbes
• Terminal sedation, the practice of inducing unconsciousness in a terminally ill person for the remainder of the person's life
• the song "Terminal" by Rupert Holmes, from his first solo album, 1970's Widescreen
• The Terminal, a 2004 film by Steven Spielberg, in which a man is stuck in an airport terminal
• Terminal Entry, a 1986 movie directed by John Kincade, about teenage hackers stumbling on a terrorist computer network.
• the Potsdam Conference, code-named “Terminal”, the last Allied meeting of World War II

The Terminal (2004) is a movie about a man trapped in the JFK International Airport Terminal when he is denied entry into the United States and at the same time cannot return to his native country due to a revolution. ... Terminal illness is a medical term popularized in the 20th century for an active and progressive disease which cannot be cured and is expected to lead to death and or death due to symptoms of disease. ... Terminal is a medical thriller written by Robin Cook. ... Terminal sedation (also known as palliative sedation, slow euthanasia or sedation for intractable distress in the dying/of a dying patiënt) is the practice of inducing unconsciousness in a terminally ill person for the remainder of the persons life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous... Rupert Holmes (born February 24, 1947 in Northwich, Cheshire, England) is a composer and writer who grew up in the northern New York City suburb of Nanuet, New York, and attended nearby Nyack High School. ... The Terminal (2004) is a movie about a man trapped in the JFK International Airport Terminal when he is denied entry into the United States and at the same time cannot return to his native country due to a revolution. ... Terminal Entry is a 1986 science fiction film written by Mark Sobel, and directed by John Kincade. ... Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin meeting at the Potsdam Conference on July 18, 1945. ...

See also

• Terminus
• Terminator
• Termination

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