Terminal

Terminal may refer to:

Computing

Hardware

• Computer terminal, a set of primary input and output devices for a computer
• Terminal (electronics), a device for joining electrical circuits together
• Battery terminal, electrical contact used to connect a load or charger to a single cell or multiple-cell battery
• Terminal (telecommunication), a device communicating over a line
• Feedback terminal, a physical device used collect anonymous feedback

Software

• Terminal emulator, a program that emulates a computer terminal within some other display architecture
• Terminal (macOS), a terminal emulator included with macOS
• Windows Terminal, a terminal emulator for Windows 10 and Windows 11
• GNOME Terminal, a Linux and BSD terminal emulator
• Terminal and nonterminal symbols, lexical elements used in specifying the production rules constituting a formal grammar in computer science.

Fonts

• Terminal (typeface), a monospace font
• Terminal (typography), a type of stroke ending

Transportation

• Airport terminal, a building where passengers embark and disembark aircraft (or cargo is loaded)
• Bus terminal
• Passenger terminal (maritime), a structure where passenger water vessels ships pick up and drop off passengers
• Container port, also called a terminal, where cargo containers are transferred between different vehicles or ships
• Railroad terminal, the end point of a railroad line

Places

• Terminal (Asunción), a neighbourhood in Paraguay
• Terminal Peak, a mountain in Tasmania, Australia
• Terminal Peak (Antarctica), a mountain in Ricker Hills, Oates Land, Antarctica
• Terminal Range, a mountain range in Canada

Media

Film and TV

• The Terminal, 2004 American comedy-drama film
• Terminal (film), a 2018 British international film starring Margot Robbie
• "Terminal", an episode of Law & Order
• "Terminal" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), a television episode

Music

• Terminal (American band), a rock band from Texas
• terminal (Danish band), a pop rock band from Copenhagen
• Terminal (Ancestral Legacy album), 2014
• Terminal (Salyu album), 2007
• "Terminal" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), 2014
• "Terminal" (Rupert Holmes song), 1974
• "Terminals", a song by Relient K featuring Adam Young

Literature

• Terminal (Cook novel), by Robin Cook
• Terminal (Tunnels novel), a 2013 novel in the Tunnels series
• Terminal, a novel by Colin Forbes
• The Terminal Man, 1972 novel by Michael Crichton

*The Terminal Man (film), film adaptation by Mike Hodges

• The Terminal Man, autobiography of Mehran Karimi Nasseri

Science and medicine

• Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, a specialized DNA polymerase
• Terminal illness, a progressive disease that is expected to cause death
• Terminal sedation, or palliative sedation, the practice of inducing unconsciousness in a terminally ill person for the remainder of the person's life
• Terminal velocity, in physics
• Terminal, in botanical terminology, the location of a flower or other feature
• Terminal, in fish anatomy, a mouth position

Other uses

• Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, an American anti-ballistic missile defence system
• Potsdam Conference, code-named "Terminal", the last Allied meeting of World War II
• Suffix, in grammar
• Terminal 21, shopping malls in Thailand

See also

• Termination (disambiguation)
• Terminator (disambiguation)
• Terminus (disambiguation)
• Termini (disambiguation)
• Terminate (disambiguation)