Terminal may refer to:

Computing

Hardware

  • Computer terminal, a set of primary input and output devices for a computer
  • Terminal (electronics), a device for joining electrical circuits together
  • Battery terminal, electrical contact used to connect a load or charger to a single cell or multiple-cell battery
  • Terminal (telecommunication), a device communicating over a line
  • Feedback terminal, a physical device used collect anonymous feedback

Software

  • Terminal emulator, a program that emulates a computer terminal within some other display architecture
  • Terminal (macOS), a terminal emulator included with macOS
  • Windows Terminal, a terminal emulator for Windows 10 and Windows 11
  • GNOME Terminal, a Linux and BSD terminal emulator
  • Terminal and nonterminal symbols, lexical elements used in specifying the production rules constituting a formal grammar in computer science.

Fonts

  • Terminal (typeface), a monospace font
  • Terminal (typography), a type of stroke ending

Transportation

  • Airport terminal, a building where passengers embark and disembark aircraft (or cargo is loaded)
  • Bus terminal
  • Passenger terminal (maritime), a structure where passenger water vessels ships pick up and drop off passengers
  • Container port, also called a terminal, where cargo containers are transferred between different vehicles or ships
  • Railroad terminal, the end point of a railroad line

Places

  • Terminal (Asunción), a neighbourhood in Paraguay
  • Terminal Peak, a mountain in Tasmania, Australia
  • Terminal Peak (Antarctica), a mountain in Ricker Hills, Oates Land, Antarctica
  • Terminal Range, a mountain range in Canada

Media

Film and TV

  • The Terminal, 2004 American comedy-drama film
  • Terminal (film), a 2018 British international film starring Margot Robbie
  • "Terminal", an episode of Law & Order
  • "Terminal" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), a television episode

Music

  • Terminal (American band), a rock band from Texas
  • terminal (Danish band), a pop rock band from Copenhagen
  • Terminal (Ancestral Legacy album), 2014
  • Terminal (Salyu album), 2007
  • "Terminal" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), 2014
  • "Terminal" (Rupert Holmes song), 1974
  • "Terminals", a song by Relient K featuring Adam Young

Literature

  • Terminal (Cook novel), by Robin Cook
  • Terminal (Tunnels novel), a 2013 novel in the Tunnels series
  • Terminal, a novel by Colin Forbes
  • The Terminal Man, 1972 novel by Michael Crichton

:*The Terminal Man (film), film adaptation by Mike Hodges

  • The Terminal Man, autobiography of Mehran Karimi Nasseri

Science and medicine

  • Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, a specialized DNA polymerase
  • Terminal illness, a progressive disease that is expected to cause death
  • Terminal sedation, or palliative sedation, the practice of inducing unconsciousness in a terminally ill person for the remainder of the person's life
  • Terminal velocity, in physics
  • Terminal, in botanical terminology, the location of a flower or other feature
  • Terminal, in fish anatomy, a mouth position

Other uses

  • Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, an American anti-ballistic missile defence system
  • Potsdam Conference, code-named "Terminal", the last Allied meeting of World War II
  • Suffix, in grammar
  • Terminal 21, shopping malls in Thailand

See also

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  • Termini (disambiguation)
  • Terminate (disambiguation)