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Bus terminus A bus terminus is a designated place where a bus or coach starts or ends its scheduled route. The terminus is the designated place that a timetable is timed from. Termini can be located at bus stations, interchanges, bus garages or bus stops. T ...

, a bus station serving as an end destination *

Terminal train station A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing suc ...

or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination

Geography

*Terminus, the unofficial original name of

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

, Georgia, United States ** Terminus (office complex), an office complex in Atlanta *

Lagos Terminus railway station Lagos Terminus, also known as ''Lagos Iddo'', has been the main railway station of the city of Lagos until 2021. The rail terminus is located on Iddo Island, nearby Lagos Island and in the middle of the city. Overview The station, located in ...

, the main railway station of Lagos, Nigeria

Religion

Terminus (god) In Roman religion, Terminus was the god who protected boundary markers; his name was the Latin word for such a marker. Sacrifices were performed to sanctify each boundary stone, and landowners celebrated a festival called the " Terminalia" in ...

, a Roman deity who protected boundary markers

Art, entertainment, and media

Books

* ''Terminus'' (play), a 2007 play by Marl O'Rowe * "Terminus" (poem), written in 1866 by Ralph Waldo Emerson *

Terminus (comics) T-Ray Tag Tai Hiro Takachiho Glenn Talbot Talisman Talon Talon is depicted as a feline Inhuman in the Earth-691 timeline of the fictional Marvel Universe, sorcerer apprentice to Krugarr. Talon debuted in ''Guardians of the Galaxy' ...

, a fictional character in the Marvel Universe *

Terminus (planet) ''Foundation'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov. It is the first published in his ''Foundation Trilogy'' (later expanded into the ''Foundation'' series). ''Foundation'' is a cycle of five interrelated short stories, ...

, the home of the Foundation in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' novels (1942–1993) *Terminus, a robot in the eponymous short story from ''

Tales of Pirx the Pilot ''Tales of Pirx the Pilot'' is a science fiction stories collection by Polish author Stanisław Lem, about a spaceship pilot named Pirx. The first collection of stories about Pirx was published in 1965 in the Soviet Union in Russian under the ...

'' by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem

Film and TV

* ''Terminus'' (1961 film), a film directed by John Schlesinger * ''Terminus'' (1987 film), a film directed by Pierre-William Glenn * ''Terminus'' (2007 film), a short film directed by Trevor Cawood * ''Terminus'' (2015 film), a film directed by Marc Furmie * Terminus (''Doctor Who''), a 1983 serial in the long-running science fiction TV series ''Doctor Who'' * Terminus, fictional city location in ''The Signal'' (2007 film) *Terminus, a fictional sanctuary located in a train station, depicted in season 4 of the TV series ''The Walking Dead'' *Terminus Series, a type of mecha in the anime series ''

Eureka Seven ''Eureka Seven'', known in Japan as , is a 2005 Japanese anime series created by Bones. The series was directed by Tomoki Kyoda, with series composition by Dai Satō, character designs by Kenichi Yoshida and music by Naoki Satō. ' ...

'' *Terminus Systems, part of the world of the '' Mass Effect'' media franchise

Games

* ''Terminus'' (1986 video game), a space prison escape game by Mastertronic * ''Terminus'' (2000 video game), a 2000 space-flight role-playing/action game by Vicarious Vision *Terminus, a location in '' Halo 4''; also an achievement when the player finds it * Terminus is the name of the world in RPG/TBS video game Ash of Gods: Redemption

Music

* ''Terminus'' (album)

Sciences

Glacier terminus A glacier terminus, toe, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreati ...

, the end, or "snout," of a glacier's ice at any given point in time * '' terminus post quem'', ''terminus ante quem'', ''terminus ad quem'', and ''terminus a quo'', terms used to describe the limits of a timeframe during which a historical event may have happened in archaeology * ''Terminus'' (weevil), a beetle genus in the tribe

Pentarthrini Pentarthrini is a true weevil tribe in the subfamily Cossoninae. Genera '' Adel'' - '' Agastegnus'' - '' Agitonischius'' - '' Camptoscapus'' - '' Choerorrhinodes'' - '' Conisius'' - '' Conlonia'' - '' Cossonideus'' - '' Eucossonus'' - '' Euop ...

Other uses

Leonard Rose (hacker) Leonard Rose (born 1959 in Elkton, Maryland), aka Terminus, is an American hacker who in 1991 accepted a plea bargain that convicted him of two counts of wire fraud stemming from publishing an article in ''Phrack'' magazine. He wrote an article ...

, a.k.a. "Terminus", convicted hacker * "Terminus", a finishing move of professional wrestler Damien Sandow * Terminus, a font