Terminal vs Landing - What's the difference?
terminal | landing |
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.
corridor
coming to earth, as of an airplane or any descending object
a place on a shoreline where a boat lands
The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
As nouns the difference between terminal and landing
is that terminal is terminal (at an airport etc) while landing is corridor.As a verb landing is
.terminal
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Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)- (example) terminal cancer