the front edge of a glacier, which may be either advancing or retreating

The lower-most margin, end, or extremity of a glacier. Also called Toe, End or Snout.

The outer margin of a glacier.

Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.

Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.

Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.

Français : Terminus Deutsch : Endhaltestelle. The end of a ROUTE. See also : Round journey

In the CT Access Switching service, a single access point to a switch block input or switch block output. A terminus contains a bus, a stream, and a timeslot.

Terminus is a fictional planet at the edge of the Galaxy in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, capital of the Foundation (later the Foundation Federation).

Terminus is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from February 15 to February 23, 1983. The serial was the second of three loosely connected serials known as the Black Guardian Trilogy, and was the last to feature Sarah Sutton as Nyssa.

Terminus is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe.

French term for an independent watchmaker (or workshop) engaged in assembling watches, either wholly or in part, for the account of an "établisseur" or a "manufacture", who supply the necessary loose parts.

Terminus is a space-flight role-playing/action computer game by Vicarious Visions. It was released in 2000 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Macintosh. Terminus won awards in the 1999 Independent Games Festival for "Technical Excellence" and "Innovation in Audio".

the endpoint of a highway, at which point official markings cease; the western terminus of US 66 was in Santa Monica, California, at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Ocean Avenue.

the ultimate goal for which something is done

The region of DNA sequences where DNA replication terminates.

an extreme point or element