Terminal vs Endorheic - What's the difference?
terminal | endorheic | Synonyms |
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.
(of a lake or basin) Internally drained; having no outlet.
* 1937 , Collected Papers - Osborn Zoological Society , Volume 19, Yale University, page 94,
* 1998 , Brian Moss, Ecology of Fresh Waters: Man and Medium, Past to Future , Third Edition, Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 978-0-632-03512-0, page 198,
* 2012 , Yeqiao Wang, ed., Remote Sensing of Protected Lands , CRC Press, ISBN 978-1-4398-4187-7, page 318,
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Terminal is a synonym of endorheic.
As a noun terminal
is terminal (at an airport etc).As an adjective endorheic is
(of a lake or basin) internally drained; having no outlet.terminal
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)- (example) terminal cancer
Synonyms
* (appearing at the end) final, lateAntonyms
* (l) * (illness) early * (appearing at the end) initial, earlyExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----endorheic
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Adjective
(-)- On the other hand all closed lakes of the kind now being considered must lie in endorheic regions.
- The catchment-derived water-supply, in evaporating, leaves salts and the basin becomes an endorheic (internally drained) salt lake.
- Tibetan lakes in the endorheic basins are dynamic and sensitive to climate change.
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