Terminal

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Terminal may mean:

In travel and transport:

• Airport terminal, a building at an airport
• Terminal station, a passenger rail station
• Ferry terminal, a docking facility for passenger and/or auto ferries
• Container terminal, a facility which handles shipping containers and cargo
• 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 (font), a monospace font
• Terminal (telecommunication), a device communicating over a line
• Remote terminal unit (RTU), a telemetry device interfacing to a DCS or SCADA system
• Computer console, a text output device for system administration messages
• Computer terminal, a hardware device for data entry and display in a computer system
• Dumb terminal, a computer terminal that has limited functionality
• 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 emulator, an application program replacing a computer terminal
• Apple Terminal, a terminal emulator application included with Mac OS X
• Text terminal, any computer interface for serial entry and display of textual data
• Virtual console, a concept that permits multiple terminals on one hardware

In sciences:

• Terminal object, a type of object studied in category theory
• Leaf node in graphs, trees and computer programs, a node without children. The term terminal may also refer to vertices in a graph defining endpoints of a Steiner tree.
• Terminal symbol in formal grammar, a symbol that cannot be further divided
• Polymer terminal in chemistry, the end residue on any polymer chain
• Terminal velocity in physics, the maximimum velocity of an object or body affected by gravitational force from a larger object at which it ceases to accelerate due usually to atmospheric drag (see also Terminal velocity (disambiguation))

In fiction:

• Terminal , an asteroid base in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Terminal may also refer to:

• Terminal (band) was an Alternative/Indie rock band form Texas, USA
• Terminal, the 2006 film written by Rock Shaink Jr. and directed by Fernando Beltran
• Terminal illness, a progressive disease that is expected to cause death
• Terminal, a novel by Robin Cook
• Terminal (Colin Forbes novel), a novel by Colin Forbes
• 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 Entry, a 1986 movie directed by John Kincade, about teenage hackers stumbling on a terrorist computer network.
• the Potsdam Conference, code-named “Terminal”, the last Allied meeting of World War II

See also

• Terminus
• Terminator
• Termination (disambiguation)

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