terminus

1. The final point; the end.
2. An end point on a transportation line or the town in which it is located.
3. 1. A boundary or border.
   2. A stone or post marking a border.

[Latin.]

noun

A concluding or terminating: cease, cessation, close, closing, closure, completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, end of the line, finish, period, stop, stopping point, termination, wind-up, wrap-up. See continue/stop/pause.

A bust or figure of the upper part of the human body terminated in a plain block of rectangular form; a terminal figure.

terminations of various types

terminus, boundary-stone; in Roman religion the numen of such stones was the object of an annual ritual (the Terminalia) on 23 February, which included a sacrifice and a feast by the neighbouring land-holders. These rural termini had their state counterpart in the god Terminus, whose boundary-stone was located in the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitol, and according to tradition was there before the temple was built. It was left inside the temple, which had an opening in the roof to ensure that the stone remained under the open sky.

Pl. termini [L.] an ending.

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Terminus is a Latin word that literally means boundary stone but can refer to:

• The end of a marked road, as in the terminus of a state route, interstate highway, county road, and others
• Terminal train station, a train station acting as an end destination
• Bus terminus, a terminal bus station
• Terminus (mythology), a Roman god
  • Jupiter (god) (also known by this name)
• Atlanta, Georgia, which was originally called Terminus
  • Terminus (building), a skyscraper in Atlanta
• Glacier terminus
• Terminus (planet), the home planet of the Foundation in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
• Terminus (poem) is a poem written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Terminus (computer game), a space-flight role-playing/action game by Vicarious Visions
• Terminus: The Prison Planet, an earlier computer maze game by Mastertronic
• Terminus (Doctor Who), a serial in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who
• Terminus (comics), is a fictional comic book character in the Marvel Universe
• Terminus (film), a 1961 film
• Terminus (1987 film), a 1987 film
• Terminus (typeface)
• The Terminus series, a line of LFO units in the anime and manga series Eureka Seven

See also

• Terminal

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - endestation

Nederlands (Dutch)
begin- en eindstation (van bus of trein)

Français (French)
n. - (GB, Transp) terminus

Deutsch (German)
n. - Endstation, Endpunkt, Ziel, Grenze, Grenzsäule

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τερματικός σταθμός, αφετηρία, τέρμα

Italiano (Italian)
capolinea

Português (Portuguese)
n. - término (m), estação (f) terminal, objetivo (m)

Русский (Russian)
конечный пункт, вокзал

Español (Spanish)
n. - estación terminal, término, final de línea

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - slutstation, ändpunkt, terminal, slutmål

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
终点, 终点站, 界标

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 終點, 終點站, 界標

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 종점, 터미널, 목적지

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 終点, 目的地, 境界, 限界, 境界柱

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) عمود دال على حدود شيء, تخم, حد, نهايه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מסוף, תחנה סופית‬

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