Word Finder - terminal

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A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.

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A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.

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A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

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A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.

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A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.

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A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.

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The end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.

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An electric contact on a battery.

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The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.

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A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.

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A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.

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A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.

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The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptid.

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To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.

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Fatal; resulting in death.

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terminal cancer

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Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.

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Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it

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Occurring every term; termly.

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a student's terminal fees

The beetles have feelers with eleven segments, whereof the terminal few are thickened so as to form a club.

There has been also a further attempt in England to divide terminal charges into station and service terminals, according to the nature of the work for which compensation is sought.

Under this system each consignment of freight is compelled to pay its share of the terminal expense, independently of distance, plus a mileage charge proportionate to the length of the journey or haul.

Entering the terminal, she glanced around anxiously.

In this family there is often a marked divergence between the sexes; the terminal antennal segments are larger in the male than in the female, and the males may carry large spinous processes on the head or prothorax, or both.

I have a terminal brain tumor.

She'd felt the same loss of control and fear when first diagnosed as terminal.

Waves of wind-driven rain pummeled the terminal with a fury.

No apologies, no regrets, she repeated the mantra she adopted when Wynn first diagnosed her as terminal.

He was one of the only people she didn't shut out of her life when she was diagnosed as terminal.

I probably got a terminal case of hemorrhoids.

At the receiving station a telephone receiver was placed in series with another insulated battery, the negative terminal of which was to be in connexion with the earth.

In birds, this stalk consists entirely of blood-vessels, which in the adult enclose no terminal vesicle, and fuse with the membranous linings of the skull.

It extended the meaning of the term " railroad " to include switches, spurs and terminal facilities, and the term " transportation " to include private cars, and all collateral services, such as refrigeration, elevation and storage.

The Danube, joined by the Iller just above the town and by the Blau just below, here becomes navigable, so that Ulm occupies the important commercial position of a terminal river-port.

On the other hand, an unusually large tergal plate, whether terminal or in the series, is not always due to fusion of the dorsal plates of once-separate somites, but is of ten a case of growth and enlargement of a single somite without formation of any trace of a new somite.

The Silurian scorpion Palaeophonus, differs, so far as obvious points are concerned, from a modern scorpion only in the thickness of its legs and in their terminating in strong spike-like joints, instead of being slight and provided with a pair of terminal claws.

The " retrovert " or bent-back first pair of appendages is provided with a poison gland opening on the fang or terminal segment.

The sperm is removed by the male from the genital aperture into a special receptacle on the terminal segment P FIG.

The flowers are borne in a terminal raceme, the anthers open introrsely and the fruit is a capsule, very rarely, as in Dianella, a berry.

Bulbous plants with a terminal racemose inflorescence; the anthers open introrsely and the capsule is loculicidal.

It is the terminal station of a branch of the London & North-Western railway coming southward from Shrewsbury, and is a station on the main line of the Great Western running to Fishguard; it is also the terminus of a branch-line of the Great Western running to Newcastle-Emlyn.

A closely-related species or variety (Euterpe edulis) is the well-known palmito or cabbage palm found over the greater part of Brazil, whose terminal phylophore is cooked and eaten as a vegetable.

The small inconspicuous flowers are generally more or less crowded in terminal or lateral clusters, the form of the inflorescence varying widely according to the manner of branching and the length of the pedicels.

These infarcts are most common in organs provided with a terminal circulation, such as prevails in the kidney and spleen.

The grouping of the forms 5 to Io with II to 16 is designed to show that the pairs 5, II for example become identical when the terminal groups are the same.

Hence, when the coil at one fixed station was in action it generated high frequency alternating currents, which were propagated across the air gap between the ordinary telegraph wires and the metallic surfaces attached to one secondary terminal of the induction coil, and conveyed along the ordinary telegraph wires between station and moving train.

P g PY en P however, the cotyledon is not really terminal.

If the terminal generates only uppercase letters, UNIX accommodates it by printing everything in uppercase letters.

The mouth is terminal and anterior and surrounded by a ring of spicules or a half-ring of hooks.

The terminal branches of the arteries supplying these organs are usually described as not anastomosing but many, if not all, of Cohnheim's end-arteries have minute collateral channels; which, however, are usually insufficient to completely compensate for the blocking that may occur in these arteries, therefore, when one of them is obstructed, the area irrigated by it dies from malnutrition.

The South-Eastern & Chatham railway has four terminal stations, all on or close to the north bank of the river - Victoria, Charing Cross,' Holborn Viaduct and Cannon Street (City).

The North London railway has a terminal station at Broad Street, City, and serves the parts of London implied by its name.

The tendril or inflorescence, according to the views above explained, though in reality terminal, is bent to one side; hence it appears to be lateral and opposite to the leaf.

It has large compound leaves composed of four or five pairs, with a terminal odd one, of short-stalked, oblong, blunt, leathery leaflets, and inconspicuous green flowers.

Simarubaceae, but is readily distinguished by its large handsome red flowers arranged in terminal clusters.

The plane projection of molecular structures which differ stereochemically is discussed under Stereoisomerism; in this place it suffices to say that, since the terminal groups of the hexaldose molecule are different and four asymmetric carbon atoms are present, sixteen hexaldoses are possible; and for the hexahydric alcohols which they yield on reduction, and the tetrahydric dicarboxylic acids which they give on oxidation, only ten forms are possible.

If the configuration of d-saccharic acid were given by either 6 or To, bearing in mind the relation of mannose to glucose, it would then be necessary to represent d-mannosaccharic acid by either 7 or 8 - as the forms 6 and Io pass into 7 and 8 on changing the sign of a terminal group; but this cannot be done as mannosaccharic acid is optically active.

The small flowers or spikelets are borne in pairs on the ultimate branches of a much branched feathery plume-like terminal grey inflorescence, 2 ft.

Outline of the ventral surface to show the external apertures and nervous system; a, rosette-organ; b, uterine pore; c, terminal sucker; e, vaginal pore; g, male gonopore; n, o, p, nervous system.

The opposite end is pointed and provided with a terminal sucker.

The former bears two terminal suckers on the flattened dorsal and ventral surfaces, the latter six hooks near the tip of the tail.

The thicker portion develops a terminal muscular rostellum and two or four suckers, the thinner end (" tail ") is vesicular, more or less elongated, and contains the six embryonic hooks.

With regard to the adult worm we have to remember that its two extremities, scolex and terminal proglottis, are different from the intervening region.

The terminal or first-formed proglottis is sterile, and contains the primitive and (except in a few genera) the only excretory pore.

When the plants show signs of flowering they are topped " to prevent seed formation, the terminal buds being removed, and only a certain number of leaves left on each plant to ripen.

The female flowers are solitary or few in number, and borne on Short terminal spikes of the present season's growth.

The oral sucker may alone be present (Monostomidae), more usually a second is developed on the under surface, but may be mid-ventral (Distomidae) or terminal.

The excretory system is highly developed; the larger collecting ducts are elaborately looped and open posteriorly by a single terminal aperture.

Likewise primitive, but in various respects degraded, mainly owing to burrowing habits, are the Typhlopidae with the Ilysiidae, and Uropeltidae as a terminal branch, and on the other hand the Glauconiidae.