Usually means: Endpoint for data entry, communication.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. terminal: Collins English Dictionary
  2. terminal: Vocabulary.com
  3. Terminal, terminal: Wordnik
  4. terminal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. Terminal: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  6. terminal: Wiktionary
  7. terminal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. terminal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. terminal: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. terminal: Dictionary.com
  11. terminal (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. terminal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Terminal (American band), Terminal (Ayumi Hamasaki song), Terminal (Cook novel), Terminal (Danish band), Terminal (Mac OS X), Terminal (OS X), Terminal (Reichs novel), Terminal (Rupert Holmes song), Terminal (Tunnels novel), Terminal (Xfce), Terminal (album), Terminal (band), Terminal (disambiguation), Terminal (electronics), Terminal (macOS), Terminal (telecommunication), Terminal (typeface), Terminal (typography), Terminal, The Terminal (film), The Terminal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Terminal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. terminal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. terminal: Rhymezone
  17. Terminal (m), terminal, terminal, terminal, terminal(e) (-aux), terminal (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. terminal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. terminal: Free Dictionary
  20. terminal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. terminal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. terminal: Merriam-Webster.com
  23. terminal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  24. terminal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. terminal: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Terminal: Health & Beauty Glossary
  3. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. Terminal (disambiguation), terminal: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. terminal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. terminal: Netlingo
  3. Terminal, Terminal: CCI Computer
  4. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. terminal: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  6. Terminal: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  7. Terminal: ILC Internet Terms
  8. Webopedia (No longer online)
  9. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  10. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Technopedia (No longer online)
  12. Terminal (disambiguation), terminal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. terminal: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  3. Terminal: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  4. Terminal (disambiguation), terminal: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Terminal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Terminal: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  5. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  6. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Bryological (No longer online)
  8. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  9. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  10. terminal: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. terminal, terminal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. terminal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. terminal: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. terminal: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  5. terminal: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  6. Terminal: Beauty & Health Glossary
  7. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See terminaling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
noun:  A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
noun:  A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
noun:  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.
noun:  A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
noun:  A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
noun:  (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.
noun:  An electric contact on a battery.
noun:  (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
noun:  (computing) 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.
noun:  (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
noun:  (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
noun:  (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
adjective:  Fatal; resulting in death.
adjective:  Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
adjective:  Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
adjective:  (archaic) Occurring every term; termly.
verb:  To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.

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