1. < hardware > An electronic or electromechanical device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and displaying data received. Early terminals were called teletype s, later ones VDU s. Typically a terminal communicates with the computer via a serial line .
2. 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.
3. Apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line .
(1995-10-02)