Terminus may refer to: *

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. ...

, 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 498,71 ...

, Georgia, United States ** Terminus (office complex), an office complex in Atlanta * Lagos Terminus railway station, the main railway station of Lagos, Nigeria

Religion

* Terminus (god), 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), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe * Terminus (planet), 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'' 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 ''Mass Effect'' is a military science fiction media franchise created by Casey Hudson, Drew Karpyshyn and Preston Watamaniuk. The franchise depicts a distant future where humanity and several alien civilizations have colonized the known univer ...

'' 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 ''Halo 4'' is a 2012 first-person shooter video game developed by 343 Industries and published by Xbox Game Studios, Microsoft Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. ''Halo 4''s story follows a Cybernetics, cybernetically enhanced human ...

''; 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 retreatin ...

, the end, or "snout," of a glacier's ice at any given point in time * ''

terminus post quem ''Terminus post quem'' ("limit after which", sometimes abbreviated to TPQ) and ''terminus ante quem'' ("limit before which", abbreviated to TAQ) specify the known limits of dating for events or items.. A ''terminus post quem'' is the earliest da ...

'', ''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 Cossoninae is a true weevil subfamily in the family Curculionidae. Tribes * Acamptini LeConte, 1876 * Acanthinomerini Voss, 1972 * Allomorphini Folwaczny, 1973 * Aphyll ...

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 articl ...

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