terminus
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
terminus/ˈtɜːmɪnəs/
▶noun (pl. termini /-nʌɪ/ or terminuses)
- 1 chiefly Brit. a railway or bus terminal.
■ an oil or gas terminal.
- 2 an end or extremity.
- 3 Architecture a figure of a human bust or animal ending in a square pillar from which it appears to spring, originally a boundary marker in ancient Rome.
– origin C16: from L., ‘end, limit, boundary’.
'terminus' also found in these Oxford entries:
branch line
- conterminous
- down
- exterminate
- term
- terminal
- terminate
- termini
- terminology
- terminus ad quem
- terminus ante quem
- terminus a quo
- terminus post quem
- up
