terminal
(tɜːʳmɪnəl )
Word forms: terminals
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
A terminal illness or disease causes death, often slowly, and cannot be cured.
...terminal cancer.
His illness was terminal.
terminally adverb [ADVERB adjective]
The patient is terminally ill.
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
A terminal patient is dying of a terminal illness or disease.
They have started a hospice for terminal patients.
3. countable noun B2
A terminal is a place where vehicles, passengers, or goods begin or end a journey.
Plans are underway for a third terminal at the airport.
4. countable noun
A computer terminal is a piece of equipment consisting of a keyboard and a screen that is used for putting information into a computer or getting information from it. [computing]
Carl sits at a computer terminal 40 hours a week.
Synonyms: workstation, monitor, PC, VDU
5. countable noun
On a piece of electrical equipment, a terminal is one of the points where electricity enters or leaves it.
...the positive terminal of the battery. [+ of]
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Collocations:
export terminal gas terminal in terminal decline terminal building
When shale gas came along, he abruptly spent billions switching the facility into an export terminal.
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The company had been forced to halt output because of the closure of the oil export terminal and to complete work on its own pipeline.
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The country's main export terminal had been disconnected from the internet as a precaution, they added.
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Production ceased last year once the storage tanks at the oilfields and export terminals were full.
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But a number of export terminals are being proposed and, if some of these are built, this will open up a new source of potential worldwide supply.
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I park almost on the beach, near a gas terminal and the starting point of a 16-mile pipeline.
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The 300m survival plan would see the retirement scheme replaced with a less lucrative defined-contribution scheme, and heavy investment in the new gas terminal.
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Construction of the gas terminal, the centrepiece of the plan, will not finish until the end of 2016, according to the company.
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This requires retooling of existing plant and a new gas terminal.
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That, the company said, brought the construction of a second liquefied natural gas terminal there — each costs very roughly 1 billion to build — to the cusp of commercial viability.
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Letters are regarded as a market in terminal decline because of the unrelenting growth of other forms of communications, such as email and texting.
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Injection marks all over his body and the disfigurement caused by years of plastic surgery show he'd been in terminal decline for years.
The Sun
Otters seemed to be in terminal decline, but now they're present in every county.
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For the past few years scientists have feared that it was running out of steam and was even in terminal decline.
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This sounds like a school in terminal decline.
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The airport remains closed to commercial flights after the collapse of part of the terminal building and the discovery of cracks in the runway.
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But the novelty of staring out from my balcony onto the terminal building, where a queue of would-be passengers snaked impatiently, soon wore off.
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Survivors who staggered from the blood-drenched terminal building told how they had seen innocent passengers and bystanders cut to pieces.
The Sun
At the normally bustling airport the terminal building was deserted.
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The airport staff organised an orderly line through the terminal building.
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Translations:
Chinese: 终端的, 终端
Japanese: 末期の 終わりの時期, ターミナル