terminal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   causing or ending in or approaching death

   a terminal patient

2. 2
   adj

   relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time

   terminal examinations

3. 3
   adj

   of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route

   freight pickup is a terminal service

4. 4
   noun

   A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.

   Terminal 1 is for domestic flights, whereas Terminal 2 is for international flights.

5. 5
   adj

   Fatal; resulting in death.

   terminal cancer

6. 6
   adj

   Occurring every term; termly.

   a student's terminal fees

7. 7
   adj

   occurring at or forming an end or termination

8. 8
   adj

   being or situated at an end

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *ter-? Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥der. Proto-Italic *termenos Late Latin terminus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Late Latin -ālis Late Latin terminālisbor. English terminal Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.