terminal Význam & definícia

Význam terminal v slovenčine

• 0 (of a disease or illness) leading gradually to death:

  • She has terminal cancer.

• 1 extreme, when referring to something unpleasant or negative:

  • She claims that the shipbuilding industry is in terminal decline.

  • UK He has nothing to do all day and is suffering from terminal boredom.

• 2 the area or building at a station, airport, or port that is used by passengers leaving or arriving by train, aircraft, or ship:

  • Terminal 3 is used mostly for domestic flights.

• 3 a piece of equipment consisting of a keyboard and screen, used for communicating with the part of a computer system that deals with information

• 4 the point at which a connection can be made in an electric circuit

• 5 the place where a train, bus, aircraft, or ship begins or ends a trip, or the building used by passengers who are arriving or leaving:

  • Your flight leaves from Terminal 3.

• 6 a point at which a connection can be made to an electrical circuit (= system through which electricity flows)

• 7 a piece of equipment used for communicating with a computer, esp. a keyboard and screen

• 8 (of a disease or illness) leading to death:

  • His mother has a terminal illness.

• 9 a large building at a station, airport, or port where passengers or goods leave or arrive:

  • Hong Kong's existing eight container terminals handled more than 14.7 million containers last year.

  • Long queues and crowded terminals are making airports feel like hell on earth this summer.

  • the Eurostar terminal at Waterloo

  • They started walking towards the terminal building.

• 10 a piece of equipment consisting of a keyboard and screen, that is connected to a central computer system:

  • They were seated at terminals tapping information into keyboards.

• 11 causing something to end or fail:

  • He doesn't believe their problems are terminal.

  • This may prove a terminal blow for the troubled state-owned nuclear reprocessor.

  • be in terminal decline The market is in terminal decline.