- a building or set of buildings at an airport where passengers arrive and leave
- A second terminal was opened last year.
- Your flight leaves from Terminal 3.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- international
- air
- airport
- …
- building
- at a/the terminal
- in a/the terminal
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- a place, building or set of buildings where journeys by train, bus or boat begin or end
- a railway/bus/ferry terminal
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by waterb2, Transport by bus and trainb2, Buildingsb2- The new high-speed train will stop at a terminal to be built at Kings Cross station.
- They intend to build a massive new rail terminal.
- When I woke up I was in the bus terminal.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- international
- air
- airport
- …
- building
- at a/the terminal
- in a/the terminal
- (computing) a piece of equipment, usually consisting of a keyboard and a screen that joins the user to a central computer system
- Internet terminals have been installed at most libraries.
Extra ExamplesTopics Computersc1- All she did was press a few keys on the terminal.
- The larger financial institutions have over 200 news and data terminals in their offices.
- There were two students at each terminal.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- computer
- Internet
- network
- …
- connect
- install
- use
- …
- screen
- server
- at a/the terminal
- on a/the terminal
- (specialist) a point at which connections can be made in an electric circuit
- a positive/negative terminal
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from Latin terminalis, from terminus ‘end, boundary’.
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