Connectors and Terminals

Connectors are people in a community who know large numbers of people and who are in the habit of making introductions. Connectors usually know people across an array of social, cultural, professional, and economic circles, and make a habit of introducing people who work or live in different circles. Although connectors are rare -- only one in several thousand people might be thought of as a true connector -- they are, like mavens and salesmen, very important in the healthy function of civil society and business. Connectors are also important in trendsetting. One type of connector is a Weisberg, particularly valued in urban cultural settings.

Author Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term connector in his 2000 book The Tipping Point. Paul Revere, Roger Horchow, Ahmed Ibrahim, and Lois Weisberg are notable connectors.

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Look up Terminal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary

The term Terminal can be used to mean:

• Airport terminal, a building at an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes

• Computer terminal, an electronic or electromechanical hardware device used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system.

• Container terminal, a facility which handles shipping.

• Dumb terminal, a computer terminal that has limited functionality relative to other types of "smart" computer terminals.

• Pipeline terminal, a storage facility at the downstream end of a pipeline transport, typically serving as a buffer between delivery and use

• Polymer terminal (chemistry), the end residue on any polymer chain, including branches.

• Remote Terminal Unit, a telemtry device which interfaces objects in the physical world to a DCS or SCADA system.

• Terminal (electronics), a device for joining electrical circuits together.

• 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.

• Terminal station, a passenger rail station where rail service begins and ends; the end of the line.

• Terminal symbol, in formal grammar, is a symbol that cannot be further divided.

• Terminal (telecommunication), a device which is capable of communicating over a line.

• 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 is a synonym for the following concepts:

• Leaf node, in graphs, trees and computer programs

• Computer console, a text output device for system administration messages

See also

• Terminus