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The word terminal is employed in literature to evoke a sense of conclusion or extremity across various fields. In one context, it designates the ultimate points of geometric figures, as when points or vertices mark the definitive boundaries of a shape [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. In botanical descriptions, it often refers to the outermost portions of plants—whether indicating the budding position of a flower or the final segment of a branch—as seen when terminal buds and floral clusters are detailed [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12]. In technical and computing writings, terminal designates equipment or interfaces that serve as the end point for data communication or user interaction [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18]. Moreover, the term appears in broader contexts, sometimes carrying metaphorical connotations of finality or the ultimate stage of a process, whether in discussions of connections, definitive flourish in prose, or the concluding phase of a clinical condition [19], [20], [21], [22], [23].
  1. In Three Dimensions, did not a moving Square produce—did not this eye of mine behold it—that blessed Being, a Cube, with EIGHT terminal points?
    — from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
  2. In Two Dimensions, did not a moving Line produce a Square with FOUR terminal points?
    — from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
  3. The one Square produces a SOMETHING-WHICH- YOU-DO-NOT-AS-YET-KNOW-A-NAME-FOR-BUT-WHICH-WE-CALL-A-CUBE with EIGHT terminal Points.
    — from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
  4. We began with a single Point, which of course—being itself a Point—has only ONE terminal Point.
    — from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
  5. One Line produces a Square with FOUR terminal Points.
    — from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
  6. One Point produces a Line with TWO terminal Points.
    — from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
  7. Flowers terminal in umbellate panicles, the umbellets opposite and each bearing 3 flowerets.
    — from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera
  8. Flowers in terminal cymes, rose-color or white, single or double.
    — from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera
  9. Flowers greenish-yellow, hermaphrodite, arranged in corymbose terminal cymes.
    — from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera
  10. Flowers terminal, white, racemose, with 2 flattened peduncles.
    — from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera
  11. Flowers terminal, white-green, in racemes of 3 sessile flowers with lanceolate bracts.
    — from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera
  12. Flowers axillary or terminal, from 1 to 3 in number on a common long peduncle.
    — from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera
  13. the term ANSI-BBS) is a set of cursor control codes that originated on the VT100 terminal.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  14. In chats, anyone using a personal computer as a terminal can log the conversation, or use screen dump just to capture 'interesting parts'.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  15. (Useful if capturing text to a dumb printing terminal.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  16. The workstation appears as a given type of terminal to the remote host.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  17. Note: If characters do not echo back, set your terminal to "local" echo.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  18. Desired terminal emulator, like TTY, VT-100 or VT-52.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  19. When citybound frequent connection by train or tram from their respective intermediate station or terminal.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  20. [1] " And though the English terminal flourish passes unnoticed, every one is touched with the benediction which has preceded it.
    — from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  21. There, too, you may escape the buying of indulgences from the great terminal fist, which squeezes industry out of St. Louis.
    — from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois
  22. Edema of the lungs is not uncommon, as we should expect, especially as a terminal condition.
    — from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess
  23. Pneumonia is a frequent complication and edema a terminal event.
    — from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

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