How to say "terminal" in Japanese

• 端末たんまつCommon
  nounA terminal in the device sense: a computer terminal, or a device used to connect to a network, such as a mobile phone. It is not used for bus or airport terminals.
  コンピューター端末たんまつはずっと一列かずなみに並ならんでいた。↗

  The computer terminals were lined up in one long row.
• 端子たんしCommon
  nounAn electrical terminal: the point on a battery, circuit board, or other equipment where a wire or component connects. This is the connection-point sense, not a whole device or a station.
• ターミナルCommon
  nounThe loanword, used for transportation terminals such as airport and bus terminals. In computing it can also mean a computer terminal, the same idea as 端末.
  ターミナルの所ところを右みぎに曲まがったところです。↗

  Go out of the terminal and turn right.
• 端末機たんまつきCommon
  nounA fuller word for the same device: a terminal unit, the machine at the end of the line in a computer or communications system. 端末 is an abbreviation of this word.
• 末期的まっきてきCommon
  na-adjectiveThe adjectival sense: terminal as in a final, incurable stage, chiefly of an illness. It can also describe a situation as beyond saving, and it is not a noun for a device or place.

Choose by sense: 端末 for a terminal device such as a computer or phone, 端子 for an electrical connection point, 「ターミナル」 for airport and bus terminals and for computer terminals, 端末機 for a terminal unit, 末期的 for terminal illness.

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• 端末たんまつterminal
• 端子たんしterminal
• ターミナルterminal
• 端末機たんまつきterminal (unit)
• 末期的まっきてきterminal
• 末端まったんend
• 終端しゅうたんterminus
• 上屋うわやshed
• 通信装置つうしんそうちcommunications equipment
• 発着所はっちゃくじょlanding place (e.g. for steamers)
• 端局たんきょく(radio) terminal
• 着地ちゃくちlanding place
• ターミナルビル(railway) station
• Ｔティー(airport) terminal