TERMINUS
\tˈɜːmɪnəs], \tˈɜːmɪnəs], \t_ˈɜː_m_ɪ_n_ə_s]\
Definitions of TERMINUS
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- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
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the ultimate goal for which something is done
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a place where something ends or is complete
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either end of a railroad or bus route
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(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
By Princeton University
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station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
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the ultimate goal for which something is done
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a place where something ends or is complete
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either end of a railroad or bus route
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
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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.
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Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.
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Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.
By Oddity Software
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Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
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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.
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Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.
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Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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t[.e]r'mi-nus, n. the end or extreme point: one of the extreme points of a railway, &c.: the ancient Roman god of boundaries:--pl. TER'MINI ([=i]).--ns. TER'MINER (law), the act of determining; TER'MINISM, the theological doctrine that there is a limit in the life of each man and of mankind for the operation of grace; TER'MINIST, one who believes in terminism.
By Thomas Davidson
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(Now rare) final point, goal; station at end of main or branch railway; (Roman Ant., T-) god of boundaries; figure of human bust ending in square pillar; t. ad quem, a quo, terminating, starting, -point (of argument, policy, &c.). [Latin]
By Sir Augustus Henry
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n. [Latin] Literally, a boundary : a border ;-any post or stone marking a boundary ;-the extreme point at either end of a piece of railway ; also, the station-house at either end;- in architecture, a half statue or bust springing from a pillar or pilaster.
