terminus

IPA: tˈɝmʌnʌs

noun

  • The end or final point of something.
  • The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
  • A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary.
  • (Roman mythology) The god of boundaries and landmarks, focus of the important Roman festival of Terminalia.
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Examples of "terminus" in Sentences

  • It was the terminus of the branch.
  • Bald Knob is the terminus of the away.
  • Later, it was the terminus of the trams.
  • The current terminus of the line is busy.
  • Calving glaciers accelerate at the terminus.
  • They mark the terminus of the recurrent nerve.
  • It is the eastern terminus of the Crouch Valley Line.
  • It is the terminus of the Rockport branch of the line.
  • The terminus of the glacier is retreating and thinning.
  • The station is also intended to be the terminus of the proposed.
  • BART’s southern terminus is Millbrae, about 25 miles north of Mountain View.
  • I can see clearly now that the terminus is nearer than I had earlier thought.
  • The end, the terminus, is significant not by itself but as the integration of the parts.
  • Once that terminus is erased, there is nothing to stop society from sliding into straightforward euthanasia, as has occurred in the UK.
  • Its terminus is the Trevi Fountain; you can see (and hear) part of the ancient aqueduct below the Sala Trevi cinema in an alley nearby.
  • More properly the terminus is Emeryville in Oakland, and I’m more properly in Oakland, although I go across the bay to San Fran a bunch.
  • That would be a fine example of establishing what we call a terminus ante quem, "point [in time] before which," the latest year a particular document could have been written.
  • 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.

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