Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The final point; the end.
- noun An end point on a transportation line or the town in which it is located.
- noun A boundary or border.
- noun A stone or post marking a border.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boundary; a limit; a stone, post, or other mark used to indicate the boundary of a property.
- noun [capitalized] In Roman mythology, the god of boundaries; the deity who presided over boundaries or landmarks.
- noun A bust or figure of the upper part of the human body, terminating in a plain block of rectangular form; a half-statue or bust, not placed upon but incorporated with, and as it were immediately springing out of, the square pillar which serves as its pedestal.
- noun Termination; limit; goal; end.
- noun The extreme station at either end of a railway, or important section of a railway.
- noun The point to which a vector carries a given or assumed point.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
- noun (Myth.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.
- noun Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See
Term , 8. - noun Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
end orfinal point of something. - noun The end point of a
transportation system , or thetown orcity in which it islocated . - noun A
boundary orborder , or apost orstone marking such a boundary.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ultimate goal for which something is done
- noun station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- noun (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
- noun either end of a railroad or bus route
- noun a place where something ends or is complete
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That would be a fine example of establishing what we call a terminus ante quem, "point [in time] before which," the latest year a particular document could have been written.
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The end, the terminus, is significant not by itself but as the integration of the parts.
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Once that terminus is erased, there is nothing to stop society from sliding into straightforward euthanasia, as has occurred in the UK.
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The end, the terminus, is significant not by itself but as the integration of the parts.
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I can see clearly now that the terminus is nearer than I had earlier thought.
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Its terminus is the Trevi Fountain; you can see (and hear) part of the ancient aqueduct below the Sala Trevi cinema in an alley nearby.
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Its terminus is the Trevi Fountain; you can see (and hear) part of the ancient aqueduct below the Sala Trevi cinema in an alley nearby.
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To the left we had the Champs-Elysees with their noble elms whose terminus is marked, off yonder on an elevation, by the great triumphal arch of Napoleon in the Place de L'Etoile.
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More properly the terminus is Emeryville in Oakland, and I’m more properly in Oakland, although I go across the bay to San Fran a bunch.
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BART’s southern terminus is Millbrae, about 25 miles north of Mountain View.
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