terminal

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terminal

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 teletypes, later ones VDUs. Typically a terminal communicates with the computer via a serial line.

2.   (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.

3.   (electronics)   Apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line.

Last updated: 1995-10-02

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  concluding, final, last, end, pole, terminus, depot