Terminal
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Terminal may refer to:
Travel and transport
- Airport terminal, a building at an airport
- Bus terminal, a bus station
- Container terminal, a facility which handles shipping containers and cargo
- Ferry terminal, a docking facility for passenger, train and/or auto ferries
- Freight terminal, a freight station
- Shipping terminal, a sea port or a dock or a berth
- Marine terminal, a sea port or a dock (maritime) or a berth
- Railway terminal, generally the end of a railway line
- Terminal station, a station at the end of a route (typically tramway or railway)
Electronics, telecommunication, and computers
- Terminal (typeface), a monospace font
- A type of Stroke ending (typography) which does not end in a serif
- Terminal (electronics), a device for joining electrical circuits together
- Terminal (telecommunication), a device communicating over a line
- Remote Terminal Unit (RTU), a telemetry device interfacing to a DCS or SCADA system
- Computer console, a text output device for system administration messages
- Computer terminal, a hardware device for data entry and display in a computer system
- Dumb terminal, a computer terminal that has limited functionality
- Pseudo terminal, a piece of code that routes a server I/O to and from some application, assuming that it will implement the text terminal behavior
- Terminal emulator, an application program replacing a computer terminal
- Terminal (OS X), a terminal emulator application included with OS X
- Terminal (Xfce), the Xfce terminal emulator
- Virtual console, a concept that permits multiple terminals on one hardware
Sciences
- Terminal object, a type of object studied in category theory
- 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 speed of an object when the restraining force exerted by a fluid (such as air) is equal to other forces (such as gravity) (see also Terminal velocity (disambiguation))
- Terminal crown, a feature of living trees like the Eucalyptus Mallet (habit)
- axon terminal, is destal termination of the branches of an axon.
Other
- Terminal, Soviet Union arcade game company.
- terminal (Danish band), pop rock act from Denmark
- Terminal (band), an alternative/indie rock band from Texas, USA
- Terminal illness, a progressive disease that is expected to cause death
- Terminal (Cook novel), by Robin Cook
- Terminal (Tunnels novel), a 2013 novel in the Tunnels series
- Terminal, 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 Terminal, a 2004 film by Steven Spielberg, in which a man is trapped in an airport terminal
- The Potsdam Conference, code-named “Terminal”, the last Allied meeting of World War II
- Suffix, in grammar
- Terminal (album), a 2007 album by Salyu
- "Terminal" (Rupert Holmes song)
- "Terminal", a song by Ayumi Hamasaki from her album Colours (2014)
- "Terminals", a song by Relient K, featuring Adam Young
See also
- Termination (disambiguation)
- Terminator (disambiguation)
- Terminus station