dictionary help| terminal | computing dictionary |
1. <computer hardware> An electronic or electromechanical device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and displaying data received. Early terminals were called teletypes, later ones VDUs. Typically a terminal communicates with the computer via a serial line.
2. <electronics> The end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
3. <electronics> Apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line.
(01 Mar 1995)
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| terminal | medical dictionary |
1. Forming or pertaining to an end, placed at the end.
2. A termination, end or extremity.
Origin: L. Terminalis
(11 Mar 2008)
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