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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