noun literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
2. terminus ·noun hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. ·see term, 8.
3. terminus ·noun either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.
4. terminus ·noun 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.