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],
"id": "en-terminus-en-noun-HeceTo5w",
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],
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"sense": "end or final point",
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"ref": "1951 June, “British Railways Summer Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 419",
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],
[
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]
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"word": "վերջնակետ"
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"sense": "end point of a transport system",
"word": "终点站"
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"word": "finstacio"
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"sense": "end point of a transport system",
"word": "pääteasema"
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"masculine"
],
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"sense": "end point of a transport system",
"word": "終点"
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"sense": "end point of a transport system",
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"A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary."
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"tags": [
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],
"word": "qasma"
}
]
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{
"word": "terminate"
},
{
"word": "termination"
},
{
"word": "terminus ad quem"
},
{
"word": "terminus ante quem"
},
{
"word": "terminus a quo"
},
{
"word": "terminus post quem"
},
{
"word": "terminus technicus"
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"text": "Thirty-five years ago, many journeys around London meant having to pass through the centre of the capital. That's no longer the case, which takes real pressure off the city's termini as well as underground routes such as the Circle Line.",
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"sense": "end point of a transport system",
"word": "son durak"
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