Terminal may mean:

In travel and transport:

• Airport terminal, a building at an airport
• Terminal station, a passenger rail station
• Container terminal, a facility which handles shipping
• Pipeline terminal, a storage facility at the downstream end of a pipeline transport

In electronics, telecommunication, and computers:

• Terminal (electronics), a device for joining electrical circuits together
• Terminal (telecommunication), a device communicating over a line
• Remote terminal unit (RTU), a telemetry device interfacing to a DCS or SCADA system
• Computer terminal, a hardware device for data entry and display in a computer system
• Text terminal, any computer interface for serial entry and display of textual data
• Dumb terminal, a computer terminal that has limited functionality
• Terminal emulator, an application program replacing a computer terminal
• Virtual console, a concept that permits multiple terminals on one hardware
• Computer console, a text output device for system administration messages
• Pseudo terminal, a piece of code that routes a server I/O to and from some application, assuming that it will implement the text terminal behavior
• Terminal (application), a terminal emulator application included with Mac OS X
• Terminal (font), a monospace font

In music:

• Terminal (band), a former band on Tooth and Nail Records

In sciences:

• Terminal object, a type of object studied in category theory
• Leaf node in graphs, trees and computer programs, a node without children
• Terminal symbol in formal grammar, a symbol that cannot be further divided
• Polymer terminal in chemistry, the end residue on any polymer chain

Terminal may also refer to:

• Terminal illness, a progressive disease that is expected to cause death
• Terminal sedation, the practice of inducing unconsciousness in a terminally ill person for the remainder of the person's life
• the song "Terminal" by Rupert Holmes, from his first solo album, 1970's Widescreen
• The Terminal, a 2004 film by Steven Spielberg, in which a man is stuck in an airport terminal
• Terminal (film), the 2006 film written by Rock Shaink Jr. and directed by Fernando Beltran
• the Potsdam Conference, code-named “Terminal”, the last Allied meeting of World War II
• Terminal (novel), a novel by Colin Forbes

See also

• Terminus

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