Noun

(en noun)

One who serves; a waitress or waiter.

A tray for dishes; a salver.

(computing) A program which provides services to other programs or users, either in the same computer or over a computer network.

(senseid)(computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.

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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.