Terminal

Terminal may refer to:

Hardware

 * Computer terminal, a set of primary input and output devices for a computer
 * Terminal (electronics), a device for joining electrical circuits together
 * Battery terminal, electrical contact used to connect a load or charger to a single cell or multiple-cell battery
 * Terminal (telecommunication), a device communicating over a line
 * Feedback terminal, a physical device used collect anonymous feedback

Software

 * Terminal emulator, a program that emulates a computer terminal within some other display architecture
 * Terminal (macOS), a terminal emulator included with macOS
 * Windows Terminal, a terminal emulator for Windows 10 and Windows 11
 * GNOME Terminal, a Linux and BSD terminal emulator
 * Terminal and nonterminal symbols, lexical elements used in specifying the production rules constituting a formal grammar in computer science.

Fonts

 * Terminal (typeface), a monospace font
 * Terminal (typography), a type of stroke ending

Transportation

 * Airport terminal, a building where passengers embark and disembark aircraft (or cargo is loaded)
 * Bus terminal
 * Passenger terminal (maritime), a structure where passenger water vessels ships pick up and drop off passengers
 * Container port, also called a terminal, where cargo containers are transferred between different vehicles or ships
 * Railroad terminal, the end point of a railroad line

Places

 * Terminal (Asunción), a neighbourhood in Paraguay
 * Terminal Peak, a mountain in Tasmania, Australia
 * Terminal Peak (Antarctica), a mountain in Ricker Hills, Oates Land, Antarctica
 * Terminal Range, a mountain range in Canada

Film and TV

 * The Terminal, 2004 American comedy-drama film
 * Terminal (film), a 2018 British international film starring Margot Robbie
 * "Terminal", an episode of Law & Order
 * "Terminal" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), a television episode

Music

 * Terminal (American band), a rock band from Texas
 * terminal (Danish band), a pop rock band from Copenhagen
 * Terminal (Ancestral Legacy album), 2014
 * Terminal (Salyu album), 2007
 * "Terminal" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), 2014
 * "Terminal" (Rupert Holmes song), 1974
 * "Terminals", a song by Relient K featuring Adam Young

Literature

 * Terminal (Cook novel), by Robin Cook
 * Terminal (Tunnels novel), a 2013 novel in the Tunnels series
 * Terminal, a novel by Colin Forbes
 * The Terminal Man, 1972 novel by Michael Crichton
 * The Terminal Man (film), film adaptation by Mike Hodges


 * The Terminal Man, autobiography of Mehran Karimi Nasseri

Other uses

 * Terminal illness, a progressive disease that is expected to cause death
 * Terminal velocity, in physics
 * Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, an American anti-ballistic missile defence system
 * Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, a specialized DNA polymerase
 * Terminal sedation, another name for palliative sedation, the practice of inducing unconsciousness in a terminally ill person for the remainder of the person's life
 * Terminal, relating to the location of a flower or other feature in botany
 * Potsdam Conference, code-named “Terminal”, the last Allied meeting of World War II
 * Suffix, in grammar