terminalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɚmɪnəl/

名詞

terminal (複数形 terminals)

1. A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.

   Terminal 1 is for domestic flights, whereas Terminal 2 is for international flights.

   A shuttle service runs free of charge between the three terminals.

2. A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
3. A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
4. A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
5. A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
6. A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil または chemicals) prior to further distribution.
7. (electronics) the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
8. An electric contact on a battery.
9. (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
10. (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
11. (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
12. (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
13. (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.

派生語

• coterminal

関連する語

派生した語

• → Bulgarian: термина́л (terminál)
• → Japanese: ターミナル (tāminaru)
• → Korean: 터미널 (teomineol)
• → Russian: термина́л (terminál)
  • → Kazakh: терминал (terminal)

形容詞

terminal (comparative more terminal, superlative most terminal)

1. Fatal; resulting in death.

   terminal cancer

2. Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
3. Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
4. (archaic) Occurring every term; termly.

   a student's terminal fees

同意語

• (appearing at the end): endly, final, late, endsome

反意語

• non-terminal
• (illness): early
• (appearing at the end): initial, early

派生語

• terminally
• terminal moraine

動詞

terminal (三人称単数 現在形 terminals, 現在分詞 terminaling または terminalling, 過去形および過去分詞形 terminaled または terminalled)

1. To store bulk liquids (such as oil または chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.

Further reading

• terminal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• terminal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

アナグラム

• trailmen, tram line, tramline