different between boundary vs terminus

English

Etymology

bound +? -ary, Old French, from Latin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ba?nd?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ba?nd??i/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?i

Noun

boundary (plural boundaries)

1. The dividing line or location between two areas.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

2. (figuratively, often in the plural) The bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things (such as one’s comfort zone, privacy, or professional sphere and the realm beyond).

3. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
4. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six) runs respectively for the batting team.
5. (topology) (of a set) The set of points in the closure of a set ${\displaystyle S}$, not belonging to the interior of that set.

Derived terms

• Boundary County
• boundary rider
• boundary umpire

Related terms

• bound

Translations

See also

• border
• confine
• frontier
• fladry

Further reading

• boundary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• boundary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terminus (“boundary, limit”). Doublet of term.

Noun

terminus (plural termini or terminuses)

1. The end or final point of something.
2. The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
3. A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary.

Antonyms

• origin

Related terms

• terminal
• terminate
• termination
• terminus a quo
• terminus ante quem

Translations

Anagrams

• minuters, muntries, muster in, numerist, run times, run-times, runtimes, unmiters, unmitres

French

Etymology

From English terminus, an unadapted borrowing from Latin terminus. Doublet of terme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.mi.nys/

Noun

terminus m (uncountable)

1. terminus

Related terms

• terminer

References

• “terminus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Alternative forms

• termen (uncommon)
• term? (collateral form)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *termenos, from Proto-Indo-European *térmn? (“boundary”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (térma, “a goal”), ?????? (térm?n, “a border”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ter.mi.nus/, [?t??rm?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ter.mi.nus/, [?t??rminus]

Noun

terminus m (genitive termin?); second declension

1. a boundary, limit, end

   Synonyms: f?nis, l?mes, m?ta, d?f?n?ti?, granicia

2. (Medieval Latin) word, term, definition

   Synonyms: verbum, d?f?n?ti?

3. (Medieval Latin) due date, a time to convene

   Synonyms: di?s, conventus

4. (Medieval Latin) mode, wise, fashion, manner

   Synonyms: rati?, modus, f?rma

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• terminus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• terminus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• terminus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• terminus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• terminus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• terminus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray