"terminus" meaning in English

See terminus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈtɜːmɪnəs/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-terminus.wav Forms: termini [plural], terminuses [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin terminus (“boundary, limit”). Doublet of term, Terminus, and termon. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|la|terminus|t=boundary, limit}} Learned borrowing from Latin terminus (“boundary, limit”), {{dbt|en|term|Terminus|termon}} Doublet of term, Terminus, and termon Head templates: {{en-noun|termini|+}} terminus (plural termini or terminuses)
  1. The end or final point of something. Translations (end or final point): крайна точка (krajna točka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), päätepiste (Finnish), végpont (Hungarian)
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  2. The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located. Categories (topical): Rail transportation, Transport Translations (end point of a transport system): վերջնակետ (verǰnaket) (Armenian), крайна спирка (krajna spirka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 终点站 (Chinese), endestation [common-gender] (Danish), eindpunt [neuter] (Dutch), eindstation [neuter] (Dutch), finstacio (Esperanto), pääteasema (english: station, such as for trains) (Finnish), päätepysäkki (english: stop, such as for buses) (Finnish), päättäri [colloquial] (Finnish), terminus [masculine] (French), Endstation [feminine] (German), végállomás (Hungarian), terminus (Indonesian), capolinea [masculine] (Italian), 終点 (shūten) (Japanese), venda [feminine] (Maltese), endestasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), endestasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), terminus [neuter] (Romanian), slutstation [common-gender] (Swedish), ändstation (english: station, such as for trains) [common-gender] (Swedish), ändhållplats (english: stop, such as for buses) [common-gender] (Swedish), son durak (Turkish)
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  3. A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary. Translations (boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary): qasma [feminine] (Maltese)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: carboxy-terminus, C-terminus, N-terminus Related terms: non-terminus, terminal, terminate, termination, terminus ad quem, terminus ante quem, terminus a quo, terminus post quem, terminus technicus

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "end point of a transport system",
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      "sense": "end point of a transport system",
      "word": "végállomás"
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      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "end point of a transport system",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "end point of a transport system",
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      "word": "capolinea"
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      "sense": "end point of a transport system",
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      "code": "tr",
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}

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