<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.</li><li>occurring at or forming the end of a series, succession, or the like; closing; concluding.</li><li>pertaining to or lasting for a term or definite period; occurring at fixed terms or in every term: terminal payments.</li><li>pertaining to, situated at, or forming the terminus of a railroad.</li><li>Botany. growing at the end of a branch or stem, as a bud or inflorescence.</li><li>Architecture. noting a figure, as a herm or term, in the form of a bust upon a gaine.</li><li>pertaining to or placed at a boundary, as a landmark.</li><li>occurring at or causing the end of life: a terminal disease.</li><li>Informal. utterly beyond hope, rescue, or saving: The undercapitalized project is a terminal problem.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a terminal part of a structure; end or extremity.</li><li>Railroads. a major assemblage of station, yard, maintenance, and repair facilities, as at a terminus, at which trains originate or terminate, or at which they are distributed or combined.</li><li>Computers. any device for entering information into a computer or receiving information from it, as a keyboard with video display unit, either adjoining the computer or at some distance from it.</li><li>a station on the line of a public carrier, as in a city center or at an airport, where passengers embark or disembark and where freight is received or discharged.</li><li>Electricity. the mechanical device by means of which an electric connection to an apparatus is established.</li><li>the point of current entry to, or point of current departure from, any conducting component in an electric circuit.</li><li>Architecture. a herm or term. a carving or the like at the end of something, as a finial.</li></ul>