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terminal
1、 Forming or relating to an end or limit.
2、 Fatal.
🌱She knows she's in the late stages of a terminal illness, and has already drawn up a will. 🌳A terminal disease ends in death. If you're terminally bored, you're "bored to death." For many students, a high-school diploma is their terminal degree （others finish college before terminating their education）. A bus or train terminal is the endpoint of the line. A computer terminal was originally the endpoint of a line connecting to a central computer. A terminal ornament may mark the end of a building, and terminal punctuation ends this sentence. indeterminate Not precisely determined; vague.
🌱The police are looking for a tall white bearded man of indeterminate age who should be considered armed and dangerous. 🌳When you determine something, you decide on what it is, which means you put limits or boundaries on its identity. So something indeterminate lacks identifying limits. A mutt is usually the product of indeterminate breeding, since at least the father's identity is generally a mystery. A painting of indeterminate origins is normally less valued than one with the painter's name on it. And if negotiations are left in an indeterminate state, nothing has been decided. interminable Having or seeming to have no end; tiresomely drawn out.
🌱The preacher was making another of his interminable pleas for money, so she snapped off the TV. 🌳Nothing is literally endless, except maybe the universe and time itself, so interminable as we use it is always an exaggeration. On an unlucky day you might sit through an interminable meeting, have an interminable drive home in heavy traffic, and watch an interminable film—all in less than 24 hours. terminus 1、 The end of a travel route （such as a rail or bus line）, or the station at the end of a route.
2、 An extreme point; tip.
🌱They've been tracking the terminus of the glacier for 20 years, in which time it has retreated 500 yards. 🌳This word comes straight from Latin. In the Roman empire, a terminus was a boundary stone, and all boundary stones had a minor god associated with them, whose name was Terminus. Terminus was a kind of keeper of the peace, since wherever there was a terminus there could be no arguments about where your property ended and your neighbor's property began. So Terminus even had his own festival, the Terminalia, when images of the god were draped with flower garlands. Today the word shows up in all kinds of places, including in the name of numerous hotels worldwide built near a city's railway terminus.
2、 Fatal.
🌱She knows she's in the late stages of a terminal illness, and has already drawn up a will. 🌳A terminal disease ends in death. If you're terminally bored, you're "bored to death." For many students, a high-school diploma is their terminal degree （others finish college before terminating their education）. A bus or train terminal is the endpoint of the line. A computer terminal was originally the endpoint of a line connecting to a central computer. A terminal ornament may mark the end of a building, and terminal punctuation ends this sentence. indeterminate Not precisely determined; vague.
🌱The police are looking for a tall white bearded man of indeterminate age who should be considered armed and dangerous. 🌳When you determine something, you decide on what it is, which means you put limits or boundaries on its identity. So something indeterminate lacks identifying limits. A mutt is usually the product of indeterminate breeding, since at least the father's identity is generally a mystery. A painting of indeterminate origins is normally less valued than one with the painter's name on it. And if negotiations are left in an indeterminate state, nothing has been decided. interminable Having or seeming to have no end; tiresomely drawn out.
🌱The preacher was making another of his interminable pleas for money, so she snapped off the TV. 🌳Nothing is literally endless, except maybe the universe and time itself, so interminable as we use it is always an exaggeration. On an unlucky day you might sit through an interminable meeting, have an interminable drive home in heavy traffic, and watch an interminable film—all in less than 24 hours. terminus 1、 The end of a travel route （such as a rail or bus line）, or the station at the end of a route.
2、 An extreme point; tip.
🌱They've been tracking the terminus of the glacier for 20 years, in which time it has retreated 500 yards. 🌳This word comes straight from Latin. In the Roman empire, a terminus was a boundary stone, and all boundary stones had a minor god associated with them, whose name was Terminus. Terminus was a kind of keeper of the peace, since wherever there was a terminus there could be no arguments about where your property ended and your neighbor's property began. So Terminus even had his own festival, the Terminalia, when images of the god were draped with flower garlands. Today the word shows up in all kinds of places, including in the name of numerous hotels worldwide built near a city's railway terminus.
TERM/TERMIN comes from the Latin verb terminare,"to limit, bound, or set limits to," and the noun terminus,"limit or boundary." In English, those boundaries or limits tend to be final. A term goes on for a given amount of time and then ends, and to terminate a sentence or a meeting or a ballgame means to end it.🌸