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Definition: Terminus |
TerminusNoun1. A place of termination or completion. 2. The ultimate goal for which something is done. 3. Either end of a railroad or bus route. 4. Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Terminus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a limit", "a boundary", "an end". |
Date "terminus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Etymology: Terminus \Ter"mi*nus\, noun; plural Termini. [Latin See Term.]. (references) |
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Science | The end, or foot, of a glacier. (of a glacier). (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Terminus. Terminus, radius, alumnus, and some other words ending in us, form their plurals by changing the termination us into i; as termini, radii, etc. Many words ending in us that formerly were written with only the Latin plural, are now given an English plural also; as, focuses, foci; cactuses, cacti; sarcophaguses, sarcophagi; convolvuluses, convolvuli ; funguses, fungi; nucleuses, nuclei. Isthmus, prospectus, rebus, take only the English plural. Apparatus has no plural. Avoid apparatuses. The plural of genius, as applied to a man of unusual vigor of mind, is geniuses. When applied to a good or bad spirit, the plural is genii. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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In Roman mythology, Terminus was the god of boundaries. The stones used to mark borders were sacred to him.On February 23, the Terminalia was held in his honor. The stone boundary-markers were drenched in sacrificial blood and place on flowers to renew its protective powers. The stone was later thought of as a god.
Jupiter was worshipped as Jupiter Terminus or Jupiter Terminalus. He fit into the same role as the independent god Terminus.
Terminus was also the original name of the city of Atlanta, named not for the god but for being the terminus (end) of many of the South's railroad lines. The name was soon changed to Marthasville, and Atlanta soon after that.
Terminus is the name of the home planet of the Foundation in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.
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Terminus (1983) is a four-part serial in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, starring Peter Davison as the Doctor and Janet Fielding (Tegan), Mark Strickson (Turlough) and Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) as the Doctor's companions.The story takes place on a space ship to which the TARDIS has accidentally attached itself. The space ship offers to treat those afflicted with lazar disease. The serial endfs with the doctor's companion Nyssa choosing to stay on Terminus and treat the lepers.
The story was written by Steve Gallagher and directed by Mary Ridge. The cast also includes R. J. Bell (The Garm), Peter Benson (Bor), Andrew Burt (Valgard), Valentine Dyall (Black Guardian), Liza Goddard (Kari), Dominic Guard (Olvir), Tim Munro (Sigurd), Martin Potter (Eirak) and Rachel Weaver (Inga).
See also List of Doctor Who serials
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Terminus is a fictional planet at the edge of the Galaxy in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.Warning:Wikipedia contants spoilers!
Geography
It is the sole planet orbiting its star and has almost no metals. Being on the fringe of the galaxy, there are almost no stars in the sky. The capital of Terminus is Terminus City. Terminus City houses the Seldon time chamber, where messages recorded by Hari Seldon before his death are played at the beginning of Seldon Crises.Prior to human occupation, there was some life on Terminus. However, once humans arrived (along with their supporting species), these native life forms were crowded out and become extinct.
History
With the Galactic Empire in fatal decline, Hari Seldon, inventor of the science of psychohistory, creates a plan to shorten time to the rise of a New Empire from 30,000 years to 1,000 years.He asks the chief librarian of the Library of Trantor to undertake a search to find a suitable planet, according to Seldon's criteria. The librarian, following a lengthy search, finds Terminus, which at that point was uninhabited.
Seldon convinces the Empire (in particular, the totalitarian Commission of Public Safety) to set up a colony on Terminus with 100,000 scientists, whose ostensible purpose it will be to publish an Encyclopedia Galactica. In actuality, their job will be to preserve science and technology to speed the time until the rise of the next empire.
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Synonyms: TerminusSynonyms: depot (n), destination (n), end point (n), endpoint (n), terminal (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrival | Home, goal, goalpost; landing place, landing stage; bunder; resting place; destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport; terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal; journey's end; anchorage; (refuge). |
Completion | Noun: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close; (end); terminus; (arrival); winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done, fait accompli. |
End | Noun: end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail; (rear); verge; (edge); tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard. |
Limit | Noun: limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation; termination, terminus; stint, frontier, precinct, marches; backwoods. |
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Crosswords: Terminus |
| English words defined with "terminus": olfactory bulb ♦ Saint Joseph, St. Joseph ♦ Terminal statue, Terminalia, Termini ♦ Up-line, Up-train. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "terminus": Aminopeptidases ♦ Chvostek sign, Chvostek's, Chvostek's sign, core domain, culet ♦ Gallbladder Emptying ♦ HIV Protease ♦ trap cut. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "terminus": terminology. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Terminus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (end-of-the-line, terminal, terminus), German (term), Hungarian (term), Latin (a boundary mark, border, boundary, boundary line, end, limit, term, terminus, the limiting boundary). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Deutschland - Terminus Ost (1965) Terminus (1961) Hôtel Terminus (1988) Terminus (1986) | |
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 | Great Caspar Signal - built around tree trunk Note boatswain chair transporting man to top 135-foot signal --- main wood scaffold supports instrument Tree trunk supports small scaffolding and observer at top Western terminus of 39th Parallel Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Cotton at railway terminus, Savannah, Ga. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ocean terminus of Copper River Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | View at El Portal, Yosemite Valley Railroad Terminus. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Boats at Goalanda [sic], the terminus of the Great Eastern Railway at the junction of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | When as a result of the fixing of new frontiers a railway connection between two parts of the same country crosses another country, or a branch line from one country has its terminus in another, the conditions of working, if not specifically provided for in the present Treaty, shall be laid down in a convention between the railway administrations concerned. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Now, as has been the case for twenty years past, the terminus of the Orleans railroad lies just outside of the old suburb, and keeps it in movement |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I sacrificed it to Vulcan, for it was past serving the god Terminus. |
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Economic History | Switzerland | The port of Basel is a major terminus for goods handling, with efficient connections between rail, road and water. (references) |
Russia | Fishing and fish processing provide one-third of the region's budget income, and much of its local employment (the Primorskiy fishing fleet catches two-thirds of all fish in the RFE and one-third of all fish in Russia.) It is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway, a major port city, and the principal base of the Russian Pacific Navy Fleet. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | Egypt is an important air terminus for the Middle East, and Cairo is served by many major airlines. (references) |
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| "Terminus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.52% of the time. "Terminus" is used about 287 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.52% | 277 | 17,585 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.14% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (common) | 0.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 287 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "terminus": terminus a quo ♦ terminus ad quem ♦ terminus post quem. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "terminus": carboxy-terminus, c-terminus, n-terminus. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "terminus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | stancion fundor, qëllim final, kufi (abutment, ambit, border, borderline, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, butting, ceiling, compass, demarcation, division, edge, end, frontier, hedge, line, margin, Mark, measure, mete, radius, razor edge, stint). (various references) | |
Arabic | محطة أخيرة, نهاية (close, demise, end, ending, fate, fine, fining, finish, limit, stop, tag, tail end, termination), حد (border, borderline, boundary, brim, confine, definition, delimit, edge, end, extreme, frontier, limit, margin, mourn, outline, restrict, tauten, utmost degree, verge). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | римски бог на границите, крайно пристанище, крайна спирка (terminal), крайна цел, крайна точка (utmost), крайна гара (dock, railhead), крайна аерогара. (various references) | |
Czech | mezník (landmark, land-mark, milestone), koneèná stanice (terminal). (various references) | |
Danish | terminalstation (terminal station), endestation (railhead, terminal, terminal station). (various references) | |
Dutch | eindstation (end-of-the-line). (various references) | |
Farsi | پایانه (Terminal), ایستگاه نهاءی . (various references) | |
Finnish | pääteasema (terminal station). (various references) | |
French | terminus (terminal). (various references) | |
German | Endstation (terminal). (various references) | |
Greek | όριο (ambit, border, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, ceiling, confine, limit, limit to, mete, purview, stint), τέρμα (bourn, end, goal, terminal, terminus 1, terminus 2), τερματικός σταθμός (conversational terminal, terminal, terminal station, user terminal), τελικόσ σταθμόσ σιδηροδρόμου. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסוף (terminal), תח " סופית (terminal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | végpont (end, end point), végállomás (terminal, terminal point). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ujung penghabisan. (various references) | |
Italian | termine (boundary, conclusion, date, end, ending, expiry, last, limit, term, time, word), stazione terminale (terminal), capolinea (last bus stop, terminal), capolìnea (terminal). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 終点 (last stop). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうた" (lamentation, terminal), しゅうて" (last stop). (various references) | |
Manx | stad jerree, kione-stashoon. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erminustay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | término (conclusion, end, terminal), objetivo (aim, business, cockshot, drift, end, full stop, function, goal, intent, intention, object, objective, outer, point, purport, purpose, sake, shot, target, use), meta (bourne, consummation, gaol, goal, jail, mark, tee, winning-post), fim (aim, close, closing, drift, end, ending, expiration, expiry, finality, fine, finish, function, gaol, goal, jail, last, object, point, purpose, quietus, sake, stop, surcease, target, term, termination, tip, upshot, use, windup), estação terminal (terminal), estação final. (various references) | |
Romanian | termen (expression, hour, name, relations, reprieve, term, terms, time, word), staţie finalã, limitã (ambit, barrier, border, borderland, bound, boundary, brink, ceiling, circumscription, coast, compass, confine, division, edge, end, extremity, limit, line, margin, pale, precinct, termination, tether, the last straw, verge), hotar (border, bound, boundary, bounds, bourn, Bourne, coast, confine, confines, edge, end, extremity, frontier, limit, line, Marge, margin, mete, pale, stint, verge), graniţã (ambit, barrier, border, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, confine, confines, division, extremity, frontier, March, margin, mete, verge), garã terminus. (various references) | |
Russian | конечная станция (terminal, termini). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svršetak (end, end play, ending, finish, termination), krajnja stanica (railhead, terminal), kraj (beside, by, corner, end, finish, heelpiece, landscape, lappet, last, parts, tail, tail end, termination). (various references) | |
Spanish | término (concept, conclusion, definition, end, ending, finisher, term, terminal, word), estación terminal (terminal, terminal station). (various references) | |
Swedish | ändstation (railhead, terminal). (various references) | |
Thai | ปลายทาง. (various references) | |
Turkish | son durak (last stop, terminal), hedef (aim, blank, bourn, Bourne, butt, clout, cock-shy, destination, goal, home, intention, land of promise, Mark, object, objective, promised land, purpose, rover, target), gar (depot, railhead, station, station house, terminal), erek (aim, drift, end, goal, ideal, intention, land of promise, objective, promised land), amaç (aim, bourn, Bourne, cause, consummation, design, destination, dream, drift, function, goal, idea, ideal, intent, intention, meaning, mission, object, objective, plan, point, purpose, purview, scope, sense, target, turn, use, view, wherefore, will). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кінцева зупинка, вокзал (station, station house). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | termini, terminis, termino, terminos, terminum, terminus. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Joshua Chapter 19, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai egenhqh ta oria autwn ex elekeq kai alef kai baiqok kai keaf |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Fuitque terminus eorum Alchath et Oali et Beten et Axab |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And their limit was Helkath and Hali and Beten and Achshaph |
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| Language | Joshua Chapter 19, Verse 25 |
| Bulgarian | Пределът им беше Хелкат, Али, 'етен, Ахсаф, |
| Cebuano | Ug ang ilang utlanan mao ang Heichat, ug ang Hali, ug ang Bethen, ug ang Axap, |
| Croatian | Njihova je zemlja bila: Helkat, Hali, Beten, Akšaf, |
| Danish | Deres Landemærke var: Helkat, Hali, Beten, Aksjaf, |
| Dutch | En hun landpale was Helkath, en Hali, en Beten, en Achsaf, |
| Finnish | Ja heidän alueellaan tuli olemaan Helkat, Hali, Beten ja Aksaf, |
| French | Leur limite passait par Helkath, Hali, Béthen, Acschaph, |
| German | Und ihr Gebiet war Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achsaph, |
| Hungarian | És lõn az õ határuk: Helkath, Háli, Beten és Aksáf; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Daerah mereka meliputi: Helkat, Hali, Beten, Akhsaf, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka perhinggaan tanahnya adalah Helkat dan Hali dan Beten dan Akhsaf, |
| Italian | Il loro territorio comprendeva: Elkat, Ali, Beten, Acsaf, |
| Maori | A, ko to ratou rohe, ko Herekata, ko Hari, ko Petene, ko Akahapa; |
| Norwegian | I deres land lå Helkat og Hali og Beten og Aksaf |
| Portuguese | O seu termo inclui Helcate, Hali, Bétem, Acsafe, |
| Rumanian | Hotarul lor trecea prin Helcat, Hali, Beten, Acwaf, |
| Russian | ТЕ"ЕМПН ЙИ 'ЩМЙ: иЕМЛБЖ, иБМЙ, чЕФЕО Й бИУБЖ, |
| Spanish | Su territorio abarcaba: Helcat, Halí, Betén, Acsaf, |
| Swedish | Och deras gräns omfattade Helkat, Hali, Beten, Aksaf, |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "terminus": terminuses. (additional references) | |
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"Terminus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Geminus, hermeneus, terminar, termines, terminis, termino, terminous, termins, Tetricus, tigrinum, tremin, tremins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unmiters, unmitres. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: minster, minters, minuets, minuter, minutes, mistune, munster, mureins, murines, mustier, mutines, nutsier, remints, sternum, triunes, uniters, unmiter, unmitre, untrims. | |
-2 letters: estrin, estrum, inerts, insert, insure, inters, inures, iterum, merits, miners, minter, minuet, minute, mister, miters, mitres, murein, murine, muster, mutine, niters, nitres, remint, remits, rumens, rusine, rutins, sinter, smiter, suiter, tenuis, timers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: antiserum, mustering, mutineers, rudiments, ruminates. | |
+2 letters: antiserums, frumenties, furmenties, importunes, instrument, inurements, miniatures, misfortune, neutralism, nutriments, resumption, rutheniums, terminuses, trienniums, uniformest. | |
+3 letters: adventurism, circumvents, consumerist, coterminous, immurements, importuners, innumerates, instruments, intercampus, meitneriums, mensuration, misconstrue, misfortunes, multiscreen, neuroticism, neutralisms, nourishment, numerations, ostensorium, peritoneums, presumption, resumptions, seminatural, subminister, subterminal, tambourines, tourmalines, urinometers. | |
+4 letters: acquirements, adventurisms, amentiferous, anticonsumer, circumstance, computerniks, consumerists, conterminous, countermines, curtailments, disbursement, drumbeatings, enumerations, euchromatins, hermeneutics, instrumental, instrumented, interregnums, interstimuli, menstruating, menstruation, mensurations, mercurations, miniaturizes, mirthfulness, misadventure, misconstrued, misconstrues, mountaineers, mucoproteins, multisensory, neurochemist, neuroticisms, nourishments, numerologist, permutations, planetariums, premunitions, presumptions, reassumption, recruitments, reductionism, reequipments, requirements, resubmitting, subminiature, subministers, supereminent, timorousness, ultramarines, uniformities, unmoralities, volunteerism, xiphisternum. | |
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