n. (pl. termini or terminuses)
1. a station at the end of a railway or bus route.
2 a point at the end of a pipeline etc.
3 a final point, a goal.
4 a starting-point.
5 Math. the end-point of a vector etc.
6 Archit. a figure of a human bust or an animal ending in a square pillar from which it appears to spring, orig. as a boundary-marker.
Phrases and idioms:
terminus ad quem the finishing-point of an argument, policy, period, etc. terminus ante quem the finishing-point of a period. terminus a quo the starting-point of an argument, policy, period, etc. terminus post quem the starting-point of a period.
Etymology: L, end, limit, boundary