Depot vs Terminal - What's the difference?
depot | terminal |
A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
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, title= (US) A bus or railway station.
A place where military recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
(card games) The tableau; the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.
A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
In 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.
An electric contact on a battery.
In telecommunications, the apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
(computing) In the context of computer hardware, a device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
(computing) A computer program that emulates a terminal (6).
(computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
(illness) Fatal; resulting in death.
Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time.
As nouns the difference between depot and terminal
is that depot is (lb) dump, tip while terminal is terminal (at an airport etc).depot
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Noun
(en noun)Charles T. Ambrose
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Anagrams
* (l) * (l) * (l) ----terminal
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Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)- (example) terminal cancer