Terminal

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Terminal may mean:

In travel and transport:

In electronics, telecommunication, and computers:

In sciences:

  • Terminal object, a type of object studied in category theory
  • Leaf node in graphs, trees and computer programs, a node without children. The term terminal may also refer to vertices in a graph defining endpoints of a Steiner tree.
  • 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))

In fiction:

Terminal may also refer to:

  • Terminal (band) was an Alternative/Indie rock band form Texas, USA
  • Terminal, 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, 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

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