terminally
terminal
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈtɜː.mɪ.nəl/ us /ˈtɝː.mə.nəl/

terminalnoun[C] (BUILDING)

B2
the area or building at a station, airport, or port that is used by passengers leaving or arriving by train, aircraft, or ship: 站台；候机楼，航站；码头
Terminal 3 is used mostly for domestic flights.三号航站楼主要用于国内航班。
The whole terminal was evacuated.
A bus will take you to the terminal.
The so-called terminal building was little more than a shed.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Train & bus stations & taxi ranks
baggage room
bus shelter
bus station
cabstand
coach station
depot
inter-terminal
interstation
left luggage
platform
railway station
rank
request stop
retiring room
staging post
station
stop
taxi rank
train station

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Air travel: airports & landing strips
Ports & docks

terminalnoun[C] (COMPUTER)

a piece of equipment consisting of a keyboard and screen, used for communicating with the part of a computer system that deals with information计算机终端

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Computer hardware
3-D printer
active matrix
alt-
associative memory
backlight
Bluetooth
chip
console
flat screen
joypad
microcomputer
multi-client
multitasker
netbook
non-mobile
number pad
plug and play
trackball
underscore
VDT

terminalnoun[C] (ELECTRICITY)

electronics specialized
the point at which a connection can be made in an electric circuit（电路的）端子，线接头

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Electrical switches & connections
clicker
coaxial
corded
dimmer
dimmer switch
junction box
national grid
outlet
override
patch
patch someone through
pause
plug
plug (something) in/plug (something) into something
plug-in
powerbank
push-button
spark plug
switchboard
wire

terminal | American Dictionary

terminal
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtɜr·mə·nəl/

terminalnoun[C] (BUILDING)

the place where a train, bus, aircraft, or ship begins or ends a trip, or the building used by passengers who are arriving or leaving:
Your flight leaves from Terminal 3.

terminalnoun[C] (ELECTRICITY)

a point at which a connection can be made to an electrical circuit (= system through which electricity flows)

terminalnoun[C] (COMPUTER)

a piece of equipment used for communicating with a computer, esp. a keyboard and screen
terminal
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈtɜr·mə·nəl/

terminaladjective[not gradable] (DEADLY)

(of a disease or illness) leading to death:
His mother has a terminal illness.

terminal | Business English

terminal
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈtɜːmɪnəl/us
TRANSPORT (alsoterminal building)
a large building at a station, airport, or port where passengers or goods leave or arrive:
Hong Kong's existing eight container terminals handled more than 14.7 million containers last year.
Long queues and crowded terminals are making airports feel like hell on earth this summer.
the Eurostar terminal at Waterloo
They started walking towards the terminal building.
IT (alsocomputer terminal)
a piece of equipment consisting of a keyboard and screen, that is connected to a central computer system:
They were seated at terminals tapping information into keyboards.
terminal
adjective
uk /ˈtɜːmɪnəl/us
causing something to end or fail:
He doesn't believe their problems are terminal.
This may prove a terminal blow for the troubled state-owned nuclear reprocessor.
be in terminal declineThe market is in terminal decline.

Examples of terminal

terminal
Several unused terminals will be held as spares.
Both systems would require a critical mass of terminals to be effective.
The run of genetic programming is a competitive search through a space of programs composed of the available functions and terminals.
A constrained syntactic structure specifies how the functions and terminals may be combined in a program tree.
A -graph and also a -graph system are said to be left-resolving if different edges with the same label have different terminals.
The lab had twenty computer terminals separated by partitions which limited subjects' ability to see each other.
Even the relatively simple case of telecom terminals has already been on the agenda for fifteen years.
Furthermore, the domains sometimes contain more than fifty affix terminals.
During replacement, connections (bonds or wires) are established by matching terminals of the replaced i-component with corresponding terminals in the head of the case.
Each design and i-component has a signature consisting of its name together with a list of the types of its terminals.
One of the consequences of the last replacement is that the specification now contains bonds which are incident on open edges rather than edge terminals.
Fibers of passage are indicated by large dots and terminals by fine stipple.
In coronal sections, these columns of ipsilateral terminals appear as dense, irregular clusters.
Thus, although neurotrophins modulate the formation of presynaptic axon terminals, the precise cellular and molecular mechanisms remain to be determined.
An electron microscope study of normal and degenerating centrifugal fiber terminals in the pigeon retina.
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Collocations withterminal

terminal

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axon terminal
Retinal slices documented predominantly axon terminal responses; isolated cells revealed mainly soma-dendritic responses.
bus terminal
Here is the same student's perspective of the busterminal.
cargo terminal
However, it will be restricted by cargo terminal capacity and classification's rule because excessive-sized depth produces poor stability per formance in calm water and waves.
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