Terminal may refer to:
Computing
Hardware
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Terminal (electronics)
A terminal is the point at which a conductor from a component, device or network comes to an end. ''Terminal'' may also refer to an electrical connector at this endpoint, acting as the reusable interface to a conductor and creating a point whe ...
, a device for joining electrical circuits together
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Terminal (telecommunication)
In the context of telecommunications, a terminal is a device which ends a telecommunications link and is the point at which a signal enters or leaves a network. Examples of terminal equipment include telephones, fax machines, computer termina ...
, a device communicating over a line
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Computer terminal
A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that can be used for entering data into, and transcribing data from, a computer or a computing system. The teletype was an example of an early-day hard-copy terminal and ...
, a set of primary input and output devices for a computer
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Feedback terminal, a physical device used collect anonymous feedback
Software
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Terminal emulator
A terminal emulator, or terminal application, is a computer program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a shell or text terminal, the term ''terminal'' covers all remote termin ...
, a program that emulates a computer terminal within some other display architecture
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Terminal (macOS)
This is a list of macOS built-in apps and system components.
Applications
App Store
The Mac App Store is macOS's digital distribution platform for macOS apps, created and maintained by Apple Inc. based on the iOS version, the platform was an ...
, a terminal emulator included with macOS
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Windows Terminal
Windows Terminal is a multi-tabbed terminal emulator that Microsoft has developed for Windows 10 and later as a replacement for Windows Console. It can run any command-line app in a separate tab. It is preconfigured to run Command Prompt, Powe ...
, a terminal emulator for Windows 10 and Windows 11
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GNOME Terminal
GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to access a UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.
Features
GNOME Terminal (gnome-term ...
, a Linux and BSD terminal emulator
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Terminal and nonterminal symbols
In computer science, terminal and nonterminal symbols are the lexical elements used in specifying the production rules constituting a formal grammar. ''Terminal symbols'' are the elementary symbols of the language defined by a formal grammar. ...
, lexical elements used in specifying the production rules constituting a formal grammar in computer science.
Fonts
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Terminal (typeface)
Terminal is a family of monospaced raster typefaces. It is relatively small compared with Courier. It uses crossed zeros, and is designed to approximate the font normally used in MS-DOS or other text-based consoles such as on Linux. In Micro ...
, a monospace font
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Terminal (typography), a type of stroke ending
Transportation
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Airport terminal
An airport terminal is a building at an airport where passengers transfer between ground transportation and the facilities that allow them to board and disembark from an Fixed-wing aircraft, aircraft.
Within the terminal, passengers purchase ...
, a building where passengers embark and disembark aircraft (or cargo is loaded)
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Bus station
A bus station or a bus interchange is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. While the term bus depot can also be used to refer to a bus station, it generally refers to a bus garage. A bus station is l ...
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Passenger terminal (maritime)
A passenger terminal is a structure in a port which services passengers boarding and leaving water vessels such as ferry, ferries, cruise ships and ocean liners. Depending on the types of vessels serviced by the terminal, it may be named (for ex ...
, a structure where passenger water vessels ships pick up and drop off passengers
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Container port
A container port or container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. The transshipment may be between container ships and land vehicles, for example train ...
, also called a terminal, where cargo containers are transferred between different vehicles or ships
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Railroad terminal
A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing such ...
, the end point of a railroad line
Places
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Terminal (Asunción)
Terminal is a neighbourhood (''barrio'') of Asunción, Paraguay. Its name is given by the fact that the ''Terminal de Ómnibus de Asunción'', the city's main coach terminal, is located in this neighbourhood.
Neighbourhoods of Asunción
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, a neighbourhood in Paraguay
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Terminal Peak
Terminal Peak is a mountain in South West Tasmania.
It lies on the north east end of the Frankland Range jutting out towards the east from a ridge off the range towards the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is east of Mount Lloyd Jones and north w ...
, a mountain in Tasmania, Australia
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Terminal Range
The Terminal Range is the northernmost mountain range of the Canadian Rockies, so-named for its position at the northern terminus of the Rockies. Lying west of Muncho Lake and the Trout River, its northern perimeter is the Liard River. The Sen ...
, a mountain range in Canada
Media
Film and TV
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The Terminal
''The Terminal'' is a 2004 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stanley Tucci. The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy ...
'', 2004 American comedy-drama film
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''Terminal'' (2018 film), an American film starring Margot Robbie
* "Terminal", an
episode of ''Law & Order''
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"Terminal" (''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''), a television episode
Music
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Terminal (American band)
Terminal was an American rock band from Mansfield, Texas.
History
Formation and ''How the Lonely Keep''
Formed in 1998 under the name Letter Twelve, the group signed to Tooth & Nail Records in 2004 and changed its name. The band's first, and o ...
, a rock band from Texas
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terminal (Danish band)
terminal (commonly spelled with a lowercase "t") is a Danish rock/pop act from Denmark formed in 2007. Their music has been described as grunge and alternative pop/rock. The group consists of Thorsten Bæk (lead vocals, guitar), Henrik Engstrøm ...
, a pop rock band from Copenhagen
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''Terminal'' (Ancestral Legacy album), 2014
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''Terminal'' (Salyu album), 2007
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"Terminal" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), 2014
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"Terminal" (Rupert Holmes song), 1974
* "Terminals", a song by
Relient K
Relient K is an American rock band formed in 1998 in Canton, Ohio, by Matt Thiessen, Matt Hoopes, and Brian Pittman Board Message during the band members' third year in high school and their time at Malone University. The band is named after ...
featuring Adam Young
Literature
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''Terminal'' (Cook novel), by Robin Cook
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''Terminal'' (Tunnels novel), a 2013 novel in the ''Tunnels'' series
* ''Terminal'', a novel by
Colin Forbes
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The Terminal Man
''The Terminal Man'' is a novel by American writer Michael Crichton. It is his second novel under his own name and his twelfth overall, and is about the dangers of mind control. It was published in April 1972, and also serialized in ''Playboy' ...
'', 1972 novel by Michael Crichton
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''The Terminal Man'' (film), film adaptation by Mike Hodges
* ''The Terminal Man'', autobiography of
Mehran Karimi Nasseri
Mehran Karimi Nasseri ( fa, مهران کریمی ناصری pronounced ; 1945 – 12 November 2022), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, was an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 A ...
Other uses
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Terminal illness
Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, dementia or advanced he ...
, a progressive disease that is expected to cause death
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Terminal velocity
Terminal velocity is the maximum velocity (speed) attainable by an object as it falls through a fluid (air is the most common example). It occurs when the sum of the drag force (''Fd'') and the buoyancy is equal to the downward force of gravit ...
, in physics
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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), formerly Theater High Altitude Area Defense, is an American anti-ballistic missile defense system designed to shoot down short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in their terminal ...
, an American anti-ballistic missile defence system
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Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase
Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT), also known as DNA nucleotidylexotransferase (DNTT) or terminal transferase, is a specialized DNA polymerase expressed in immature, pre-B, pre-T lymphoid cells, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma ...
, a specialized
DNA polymerase
A DNA polymerase is a member of a family of enzymes that catalyze the synthesis of DNA molecules from nucleoside triphosphates, the molecular precursors of DNA. These enzymes are essential for DNA replication and usually work in groups to create ...
* Terminal sedation, another name for
palliative sedation In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ...
, the practice of inducing unconsciousness in a terminally ill person for the remainder of the person's life
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Terminal
Terminal may refer to:
Computing Hardware
* Terminal (electronics), a device for joining electrical circuits together
* Terminal (telecommunication), a device communicating over a line
* Computer terminal, a set of primary input and output dev ...
, relating to the location of a flower or other feature in botany
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Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference (german: Potsdamer Konferenz) was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Pe ...
, code-named “Terminal”, the last Allied meeting of World War II
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Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry ...
, in grammar
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Termination (disambiguation)
Termination may refer to:
Science
*Termination (geomorphology), the period of time of relatively rapid change from cold, glacial conditions to warm interglacial condition
*Termination factor, in genetics, part of the process of transcribing RNA ...
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Terminator (disambiguation)
Terminator may refer to:
Science and technology
Genetics
* Terminator (genetics), the end of a gene for transcription
* Terminator technology, proposed methods for restricting the use of genetically modified plants by causing second generation ...
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Terminus (disambiguation)
Terminus may refer to:
* Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end destination
* Terminal train station or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination
Geography
*Terminus, the unofficial original name of Atlanta, Georgia, Unite ...
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Termini (disambiguation) Termini can refer to:
*Termini Station (Rome), a main line railway station in Rome
*Termini (Rome Metro), an underground railway station in Rome
*Termini Imerese, a town in Sicily
* Termini, a ''frazione'' of Massa Lubrense, Campania, Italy
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Terminate (disambiguation)
Terminate may refer to:
*Electrical termination, ending a wire or cable properly to prevent interference
*Termination of employment, the end of an employee's duration with an employer
*Terminate with extreme prejudice, a euphemism for assassinati ...
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