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Terminal may mean:

[edit] In travel and transport

• Pharmaceutical Buying House , is a private initiative global trading platform, located in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Airport terminal, a building at an airport
• Bus terminal, a bus station
• Container terminal, a facility which handles shipping containers and cargo
• Ferry terminal, a docking facility for passenger and/or auto ferries
• Freight terminal, a freight station
• Pipeline terminal, a storage facility at the downstream end of a pipeline transport
• Shipping terminal, a sea port or a dock or a berth
• Marine terminal, a sea port or a dock (maritime) or a berth
• Terminal station, a passenger rail station

[edit] In electronics, telecommunication, and computers

• Terminal (electronics), a device for joining electrical circuits together
• Terminal (font), a monospace font
• Terminal (telecommunication), a device communicating over a line
• Remote terminal unit (RTU), a telemetry device interfacing to a DCS or SCADA system
• Computer console, a text output device for system administration messages
• Computer terminal, a hardware device for data entry and display in a computer system
• Dumb terminal, a computer terminal that has limited functionality
• Pseudo terminal, a piece of code that routes a server I/O to and from some application, assuming that it will implement the text terminal behavior
• Terminal emulator, an application program replacing a computer terminal
• Apple Terminal, a terminal emulator application included with Mac OS X
• Text terminal, any computer interface for serial entry and display of textual data
• Virtual console, a concept that permits multiple terminals on one hardware

[edit] In sciences

• Terminal object, a type of object studied in category theory
• Terminal symbol in formal grammar, a symbol that cannot be further divided
• Polymer terminal in chemistry, the end residue on any polymer chain
• Terminal velocity in physics, the maximimum velocity of an object or body affected by gravitational force from a larger object at which it ceases to accelerate due usually to atmospheric drag (see also Terminal velocity (disambiguation))
• Terminal crown, a feature of living trees

[edit] Other

• Terminal (band) was an Alternative/Indie rock band form Texas, USA
• Terminal illness, a progressive disease that is expected to cause death
• Terminal (novel) a novel by Robin Cook
• Terminal (Colin Forbes novel), a novel by Colin Forbes
• Terminal sedation, the practice of inducing unconsciousness in a terminally ill person for the remainder of the person's life
• The Terminal, a 2004 film by Steven Spielberg, in which a man is trapped in an airport terminal
• Terminal Entry, a 1986 movie directed by John Kincade, about teenage hackers stumbling on a terrorist computer network.
• The Potsdam Conference, code-named “Terminal”, the last Allied meeting of World War II
• Suffix, in grammar
• Ending (linguistics)

[edit] See also

• Freight station
• Intermodal freight transport
• Intermodal passenger transport
• Terminal illness
• Termination (disambiguation)
• Terminator
• Terminus

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