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Depot vs Terminal - What's the difference?

depot | terminal |

As nouns the difference between depot and terminal

is that depot is (lb) dump, tip while terminal is terminal (at an airport etc).

depot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
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  • (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.
  • Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    terminal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (illness) Fatal; resulting in death.
  • (example) terminal cancer
  • Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
  • Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time.
  • Synonyms

    * (appearing at the end) final, late

    Antonyms

    * (l) * (illness) early * (appearing at the end) initial, early

    Anagrams

    * ----