Definition of: terminal

(tûr′mə·nəl) adjective
1. Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit, or terminus; a terminal railroad station.
2. Pertaining to the delivery or storage of freight or baggage: terminal charges.
3. Pertaining to a term or name.
4. Situated at or forming the end of a series or part.
5. Bot. Borne at the end of a stem or branch.
6. Of, pertaining to, or occurring in or at the end of a period of time; of a fixed period.
—noun
1. That which terminates; a terminating point or part; termination; end.
2. Electr. One of the two free ends of a conductor, particularly if proceeding from an electric source, as a battery or dynamo.
3. Archit. A terminal figure or pedestal; terminus.
4. The edges or planes that form the end of a crystal.
5. A railroad terminus.
6. plural Charges for the use of terminal facilities, or for the handling of freight at railroad terminuses.
7. Physiol. The end structure or end of a neuron or nerve fiber. [<F <LL terminalis <L terminus boundary]
—ter′mi·nal·ly adverb