Eternal vs Terminal - What's the difference?
eternal | terminal |
Lasting forever; unending.
* John Locke
* Dryden
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(philosophy) existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly
(dated) Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.
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 an adjective eternal
is lasting forever; unending.As a noun terminal is
terminal (at an airport etc).eternal
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Alternative forms
* (chiefly archaic) * (obsolete) * eternall (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal
- Fires eternal in thy temple shine.
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- some eternal villain
Synonyms
* permanent, sempiternal, endless, everlasting * (existing outside time) timeless, atemporalAntonyms
* ephemeral * sempiternalDerived terms
* eternal life * eternal recurrence * eternal return * eternal triangle * hope springs eternalAnagrams
* English words suffixed with -al ----terminal
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Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)- (example) terminal cancer