Terminal may refer to:

Computing

Hardware

Computer terminal A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that can be used for entering data into, and transcribing data from, a computer or a computing system. Most early computers only had a front panel to input or display ...

, a set of primary input and output devices for a computer *

Terminal (electronics) A terminal is the point at which a electrical conductor, conductor from a electrical component, component, device or electrical network, network comes to an end. ''Terminal'' may also refer to an electrical connector at this endpoint, acting as ...

, 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) In the context of telecommunications, a terminal is a device which ends a telecommunications link and is the point at which a signal enters or leaves a network. Examples of terminal equipment include telephones, fax machines, computer termina ...

, a device communicating over a line * Feedback terminal, a physical device used collect anonymous feedback

Software

Terminal emulator A terminal emulator, or terminal application, is a computer program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a shell or text terminal, the term ''terminal'' covers all remote term ...

, a program that emulates a computer terminal within some other display architecture **

Terminal (macOS) Terminal (Terminal.app) is the terminal emulator included in the macOS operating system by Apple Inc, Apple. Terminal originated in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, the predecessor operating systems of macOS. As a terminal emulator, the application provid ...

, a terminal emulator included with macOS **

Windows Terminal Windows Terminal is a Tabbed, multi-tabbed terminal emulator developed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and later as a replacement for Windows Console. It can run any command-line app in a separate tab. It is preconfigured to run Windows Command Pro ...

, 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 An airport terminal is a main building at an airport where passengers transfer between ground transportation and the facilities that allow them to board and disembark from an Fixed-wing aircraft, aircraft. The buildings that provide access t ...

, a building where passengers embark and disembark aircraft (or cargo is loaded) *

Bus terminal A bus station, bus depot, or bus interchange is a structure where city buses or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. A bus station is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can st ...

* 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 A train station, railroad station, or railway station 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 such ...

, the end point of a railroad line

Places

Terminal (Asunción) Terminal is a neighbourhood (''barrio'') of Asunción, Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, ...

, a neighbourhood in Paraguay * Terminal Peak, a mountain in Tasmania, Australia * Terminal Peak (Antarctica), a mountain in Ricker Hills, Oates Land, Antarctica *

Terminal Range The Terminal Range is the northernmost mountain range of the Canadian Rockies, so-named for its position at the northern terminus of the Rockies. Lying west of Muncho Lake and the Trout River, its northern perimeter is the Liard River. The Sen ...

, a mountain range in Canada

Media

Film and TV

* ''

The Terminal ''The Terminal'' is a 2004 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stanley Tucci. The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. K ...

'', 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) Terminal was an American rock band from Mansfield, Texas. History Formation and ''How the Lonely Keep'' Formed in 1998 under the name Letter Twelve, the group signed to Tooth & Nail Records in 2004 and changed its name. The band's first, and ...

, a rock band from Texas *

terminal (Danish band) terminal (commonly spelled with a lowercase "t") is a Danish rock/pop act from Denmark formed in 2007. Their music has been described as grunge and alternative pop/rock. The group consists of Thorsten Bæk (lead vocals, guitar), Henrik Engstrøm ...

, 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 Relient K () is an American Rock music, rock band formed in 1998 in Canton, Ohio by Matt Thiessen, Matt Hoopes, and Brian Pittman during their third year in high school and time at Malone University in Canton. The band is named after guitarist ...

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 Mehran Karimi Nasseri (, ; 1945 – 12 November 2022), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, was an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospit ...

Science and medicine

Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT), also known as DNA nucleotidylexotransferase (DNTT) or terminal transferase, is a specialized DNA polymerase expressed in immature, pre-B, pre-T lymphoid cells, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphom ...

, a specialized DNA polymerase *

Terminal illness Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, rather than fatal injur ...

, 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 Terminal velocity is the maximum speed attainable by an object as it falls through a fluid (air is the most common example). It is reached when the sum of the drag force (''Fd'') and the buoyancy is equal to the downward force of gravity (''FG ...

, in physics * Terminal, in botanical terminology, the location of a flower or other feature * Terminal, in

fish anatomy Fish anatomy is the study of the form or Morphology (biology), morphology of fish. It can be contrasted with fish physiology, which is the study of how the component parts of fish function together in the living fish. In practice, 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 linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can ca ...

, in grammar * Terminal 21, shopping malls in Thailand