Terminal

• hardware An electronic or electromechanical device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and displaying data received. Early terminals were called teletypess (TTYs), later ones VDUs. Typically a terminal communicates with the computer via a serial line.

• 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.

• electronics Apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line. (e.g. a telephone)

• voice over IP and telephony Generalised term which usually means telephone or other station or network device.

(above taken from FOLDOC)

• railroads A passenger rail station where rail service begins and ends, i.e., at the end of the line. See, e.g., Grand Central Terminal in New York City (commonly misidentified as "Grand Central Station"), Cincinnati Union Terminal.