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say it: TUR-muh-nuhl
terminal is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route". It is pronounced /ˈtɝmənəl/ — TUR-muh-nuhl. It carries 9 recorded senses.
of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
“freight pickup is a terminal service”
“terminal charges”
relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
“terminal examinations”
“terminal payments”
being or situated at an end
“the endmost pillar”
“terminal buds on a branch”
“a terminal station”
“the terminal syllable”
occurring at or forming an end or termination
“his concluding words came as a surprise”
“the final chapter”
“the last days of the dinosaurs”
“terminal leave”
station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for terminal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.