terminus

(tûr'mə-nəs)

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.]

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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.

• Parts, Practices, and Argot - terminus: endpoint of line
• Fixed Positions and Points - terminus: end of a line

Look up terminus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Terminus is a Latin word that literally means boundary stone. It may also be used to describe the end of a road.

Terminus may also refer to:

• Terminus, the original name of Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Terminus (Atlanta), an office complex in Atlanta
• Terminus (god), a Roman deity who protected boundary markers
• Terminus (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
• Terminus (Doctor Who), a serial in the long-running science fiction TV series
• Terminus (film), a 1961 movie directed by John Schlesinger
• Terminus (1987 film), a 1987 movie directed by Pierre-William Glenn
• Terminus (2000 video game), a space-flight role-playing/action game by Vicarious Visions
• Terminus (planet), the home of the Foundation in Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels
• Terminus (typeface), a monospaced bitmap font designed by Dimitar Zhekov
• Terminus Series, a type of Eureka Seven anime mecha
• Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end destination
• Terminal train station or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination
• Glacier terminus, the end, or "snout", of the ice at any given point in time
• Terminus (play), a 2007 play by Marl O'Rowe
• Terminus (town), a fictional town in the movie "The Signal"
• Terminus (musician), Drum and Bass artist

See also

• Terminal (disambiguation)
• Terminator (disambiguation)

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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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