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terminal

[tur-muh-nl] / ˈtɜr mə nl /




NOUN
computer screen, computer input/output device
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Related: ‘I know it’s awkward to give advice to wealthy people’: My wife, 50, has terminal cancer.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

And, with the museum’s dim lighting, dated technology and underutilized areas, it can feel at times as if one is wandering in a past-its-prime shopping mall or in the forgotten corner of an airport terminal.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Eighty years later, the UK and European car industries are hoping that the engines of war can help defend against what one supplier told the BBC was a "terminal decline".

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Often, they post about loved ones with terminal diseases, trying to calculate whether the medbeds will arrive in time.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Maybe he was inside the terminal, she hoped.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Heathrow is the UK's busiest airport, serving more than 80 million travellers a year with its four passenger terminals and two runways.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The station transmits internet traffic through Poland to countries including Ukraine, and uses SpaceX systems that provide connectivity via Starlink terminals.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

When finished, the train is supposed to shuttle travelers to and from terminals, a parking and rental car lot and to the LAX/Metro Transit Center on Aviation Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Saudi Aramco is loading more crude at its Persian Gulf terminals and moving it through Hormuz before transferring some cargoes to tankers off Oman for delivery to customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Here two human nerve cells show off their intricate network of axon terminals and dendrites.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman




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