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1.nounA building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
2.nounA harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
3.nounA rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
4.nounA rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
5.nounA town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
6.nounA storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
7.nounThe end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
8.nounAn electric contact on a battery.
9.nounThe apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
10.nounA device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
11.nounA computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
12.nounA terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
13.nounThe end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptid.