Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - terminal
Terminal
terminal
adj. & n. --adj. 1 a (of a disease) ending in death, fatal. b (of a patient) in the last stage of a fatal disease. c (of a morbid condition) forming the last stage of a fatal disease. d colloq. ruinous, disastrous, very great (terminal laziness). 2 of or forming a limit or terminus (terminal station). 3 a Zool. etc. ending a series (terminal joints). b Bot. borne at the end of a stem etc. 4 of or done etc. each term (terminal accounts; terminal examinations). --n. 1 a terminating thing; an extremity. 2 a terminus for trains or long-distance buses. 3 a departure and arrival building for air passengers. 4 a point of connection for closing an electric circuit. 5 an apparatus for transmission of messages between a user and a computer, communications system, etc. 6 (in full terminal figure) = TERMINUS 6. 7 an installation where oil is stored at the end of a pipeline or at a port. 8 a patient suffering from a terminal illness. Phrases and idioms terminal velocity a velocity of a falling body such that the resistance of the air etc. prevents further increase of speed under gravity. Derivatives terminally adv. Etymology: L terminalis (as TERMINUS)
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I. adjective Etymology: Latin ~is, from terminus Date: 1744 1. of or relating to an end, extremity, boundary, or terminus , growing at the end of a branch or stem , 2. of, relating to, or occurring in a term or each term , b. leading ultimately to death ; fatal , approaching or close to death ; being in the final stages of a fatal disease , of or relating to patients with a ~ illness , extremely or hopelessly severe , 3. occurring at or constituting the end of a period or series ; concluding , not intended as preparation for further academic work , see: last ~ly adverb II. noun Date: 1838 a part that forms the end ; extremity, termination, a terminating usually ornamental detail ; finial, a device attached to the end of a wire or cable or to an electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections, 4. either end of a carrier line having facilities for the handling of freight and passengers, a freight or passenger station that is central to a considerable area or serves as a junction at any point with other lines, a town or city at the end of a carrier line ; terminus, a combination of a keyboard and output device (as a video display unit) by which data can be entered into or output from a computer or electronic communications system ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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