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UK
/tˈɜːmɪnəs/
]
[ US /ˈtɝmɪnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈtɝmɪnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the ultimate goal for which something is done
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- (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
- a place where something ends or is complete
- either end of a railroad or bus route
How To Use terminus In A Sentence
- Above: South Shore terminus with four Dreadnoughts in line abreast, demonstrating their legendary capacity to absorb crowds.
- Yet now he is dead, as dead as any ordinary pikeman who fought to hold back the Horde at the terminus of the Salmisti Bridge. Kingdoms of Light
- The metro central terminus is planned to be located close to the City Railway Station.
- I can see clearly now that the terminus is nearer than I had earlier thought. Obama picks up four more superdelegates
- To the left we had the Champs-Elysees with their noble elms whose terminus is marked, off yonder on an elevation, by the great triumphal arch of Napoleon in the Place de L'Etoile. France Through Canadian Eyes
- This truncation shows that the extreme C terminus of the SPM domain is required for protein interactions.
- The BMTC terminus with a pedestrian subway for safety will also have shops and toilets.
- San Pedro Bay, the terminus for two major coastwise shipping lanes, is full of commercial and military traffic day and night.
- Moreover, what building could better symbolise Britain's territorial expansion in the industrial age than the world's first purpose-built railway terminus?
- These residues expand a region extending from the C-terminus of S5 to the N-terminus of S6.
