terminal

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
terminal/ˈtɜːmɪnl/

▶adjective

• 1 forming or situated at the end of something.

  ■ of or forming a transport terminal.

• 2 (of a disease) predicted to lead to death.

  ■ having or relating to a terminal disease.

• 3 informal extreme and irreversible.

• 4 done or occurring each school, college, etc. term.

▶noun

• 1 the end of a railway or other transport route, or a station at this point.

  ■ a departure and arrival building for passengers at an airport.

• 2 a point of connection for closing an electric circuit.

• 3 a device at which a user enters data or commands for a computer and which displays the received output.

• 4 an installation where oil or gas is stored at the end of a pipeline or at a port.

• 5 (also terminal figure) Architecture a terminus.

• 6 Brit. a patient with a terminal illness.

– derivatives
terminally adverb.

– origin C19: from L. terminalis, from terminus ‘end, boundary’.