the place where a train, bus, aircraft, or ship begins or ends a trip, or the building used by passengers who are arriving or leaving: Your flight leaves from Terminal 3. Electrical Terminals are a class of electrical connector which are used to transfer electrical current from a power or grounding source to a use. Terminals “terminate” by crimping or soldering to wire or cable. Crimped terminals, or “compression terminals” are a subset of electrical terminals.
Terminals come into three major categories: General cargo. Unitized cargo that can be carried in batches and handled by three specialized terminal types; break-bulk terminals, neo-bulk terminals (e.g. car terminals), and container terminals. A terminal is a text input and output environment. It is a program that acts as a wrapper and allows us to enter commands that the computer processes. In plain English again, it’s the “window” in which you enter the actual commands your computer will process.
The generic name for such a device was “terminal” by analogy with electrical engineering, where a terminal is a connector on the end of a wire that lets you access electrical signals with some kind of test equipment. Eventually CRT-based terminals showed up, which featured a cursor that could move in two dimensions. A terminal consists of an input device, an output device, and a communications link to the main computer. Most commonly, a terminal has a keyboard for an input device and a screen for an output device, although there are many variations on this theme.
