Terminus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The final point; the end.
  • n. An end point on a transportation line or the town in which it is located.
  • n. A boundary or border.
  • n. A stone or post marking a border.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The end or final point of something.
  • n. The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
  • n. A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.
  • n. Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A boundary; a limit; a stone, post, or other mark used to indicate the boundary of a property.
  • n. [capitalized] In Roman mythology, the god of boundaries; the deity who presided over boundaries or landmarks.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Termination; limit; goal; end.
  • n. The extreme station at either end of a railway, or important section of a railway.
  • n. The point to which a vector carries a given or assumed point.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the ultimate goal for which something is done
  • n. station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
  • n. (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
  • n. either end of a railroad or bus route
  • n. a place where something ends or is complete
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    end    goal    statue    terminal   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    termini    term   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    border    limit    end    destination   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    junction