different between terminal vs aerodrome

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?m?n?l/

Noun

terminal (plural terminals)

1. A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.

2. A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
3. A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
4. A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
5. A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
6. A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
7. (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.
8. An electric contact on a battery.
9. (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
10. (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
11. (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
12. (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
13. (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.

Derived terms

• coterminal

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (t?minaru)
• ? Korean: ??? (teomineol)

Translations

Adjective

terminal (comparative more terminal, superlative most terminal)

1. Fatal; resulting in death.

   terminal cancer

2. Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
3. Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
4. (archaic) Occurring every term; termly.

   a student's terminal fees

Synonyms

• (appearing at the end): endly, final, late, endsome

Antonyms

• non-terminal
• (illness): early
• (appearing at the end): initial, early

Derived terms

• terminally
• terminal moraine

Translations

Verb

terminal (third-person singular simple present terminals, present participle terminaling or terminalling, simple past and past participle terminaled or terminalled)

1. To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• trailmen, tram line, tramline

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis, from Latin terminus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /t??.mi?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /t?r.mi?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /te?.mi?nal/

Adjective

terminal (masculine and feminine plural terminals)

1. terminal

Related terms

• terminar
• terme

Noun

terminal m (plural terminals)

1. (computing) terminal

Cebuano

Etymology

From English terminal, from French terminal, from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ter?mi?nal

Noun

terminal

1. a terminus
2. an airport terminal
3. a port terminal
4. a rail station

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis, from Latin terminus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.mi.nal/
• Homophones: terminale, terminales

Adjective

terminal (feminine singular terminale, masculine plural terminaux, feminine plural terminales)

1. terminal

Related terms

• terminer

Noun

terminal m (plural terminaux)

1. terminal

Further reading

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

German

Adjective

terminal (not comparable)

1. terminal

Declension

Further reading

• “terminal” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

From English terminal, from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t??r?minal], [t??r?minal]
• Hyphenation: tèr?mi?nal

Noun

terminal (plural terminal-terminal, first-person possessive terminalku, second-person possessive terminalmu, third-person possessive terminalnya)

1. terminal:
   1. (transport) facility to embark and disembark passengers.

      Synonym: stasiun

   2. (computing) a device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “terminal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin terminus, via English terminal

Pronunciation

Noun

terminal m (definite singular terminalen, indefinite plural terminaler, definite plural terminalene)

1. a terminal

Derived terms

• ferjeterminal
• flyterminal
• godsterminal

References

• “terminal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin terminus, via English terminal

Noun

terminal m (definite singular terminalen, indefinite plural terminalar, definite plural terminalane)

1. a terminal

Derived terms

• ferjeterminal
• flyterminal
• godsterminal

References

• “terminal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English terminal, from Late Latin termin?lis, from Latin terminus.

Noun

terminal m inan

1. airport terminal (building at an airport from which passengers board the planes)
2. transportation hub
3. computer terminal (device for entering data into a computer)

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis, from Latin terminus.

Adjective

terminal m or f (plural terminais, comparable)

1. relating to or occurring during the conclusion or end of something
2. (of a disease) terminal (resulting in death)

Noun

terminal m (plural terminais)

1. terminal (section of a station or airport where passengers board the vehicle or craft)
2. (electronics) terminal (the end of a line where signals are transmitted or received)
3. (computing) terminal (device for entering and displaying data)
4. (computing) terminal (computer program that emulates a terminal)

Romanian

Etymology

From French terminale

Adjective

terminal m or n (feminine singular terminal?, masculine plural terminali, feminine and neuter plural terminale)

1. terminal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin termin?lis, from Latin terminus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?mi?nal/, [t?e?.mi?nal]

Adjective

terminal (plural terminales)

1. final, last

   Synonyms: último, final

   Antonym: primero

2. terminal, fatal (resulting in death)
3. terminally ill

Derived terms

• paraterminal

Noun

terminal m or f (plural terminales)

1. terminal (a building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to airplanes)
2. terminal (a device for entering data into a computer)

Noun

terminal m (plural terminales)

1. mobile phone

   Synonyms: teléfono móvil, teléfono celular

Related terms

• terminar
• término

Further reading

• “terminal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

In the obsolete sense of “flying machine” coined by American aviation pioneer Samuel Langley in 1897, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (aerodrómos, “traversing the air”).In the sense of “airfield”, from aero- +? -drome, a suffix formed in analogy with hippodrome (“horse racecourse”), from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

Noun

aerodrome (plural aerodromes)

1. An airfield:
   1. (law, Australia, Canada, term of art) Any area of land or water used for aircraft operation, regardless of facilities.
   2. An airfield used for managed aircraft operation, either military or civilian, having such facilities as are necessary for operation.
      • 1928 June 30, Kenya Gazette, page 862,

        Any person authorised by the Governor shall have the right of access at all reasonable times to any aerodrome other than a Royal Air Force aerodrome for the purpose of inspecting the aerodrome, […] .

      • 1998, Walter Schwenk, Rüdiger Schwenk, Aspects Of International Cooperation In Air Traffic Management, page 15,

        Apart from these aerodromes where ATC services have been established, a number of aerodromes exist where ATC services are not provided. In such cases the establishment of ATC services may be required by the aerodrome operators.

   3. (Britain) An airfield equipped with air traffic control facilities and hangars as well as accommodation for passengers and cargo; an airport.
2. (obsolete) A flying machine composed of aeroplanes. An aeroplane, particularly one constructed by or according to the design of Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M. Manly.
   • 1908 June 8, Nikola Tesla, Little Aeroplane Progress: So Says Nikola Tesla-But He Is Working on One of His Own, letter to The New York Times, Page 6,

     The Langley and Maxim aerodromes, which did not soar, were in my opinion better pieces of mechanism than their very latest imitations.

   • 1911 October, The Progress of Science: Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Popular Science,

     An aerodrome, chiefly of steel, weighing, apart from fuel and water, about twenty-four pounds, was launched on the Potomac River on May 6, 1896, and flew for over half a mile.

   • 1914 December, Popular Mechanics, page 811,

     This was apparently due to the weakness of the old Manley motor with which the aerodrome was originally equipped and which was capable of developing only 52 horsepower.

   • 1918, Automotive Industries, Volume 39, page 718,

     During the years 1892 and 1893 four steam-propelled aerodromes were constructed.

Descendants

• ? Irish: aeradróm

Translations

See also

• aerodromics

References