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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

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