terminal

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
  2. noun a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
  3. noun either extremity of something that has length

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.

In classic literature

Synonyms

terminus, depot

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