Tĕr’mi-nŭs, n.

n.; pl. TĔR’-MI-NI. [Lat. Cf. TERM.]

1Sense 1. Literally, a boundary; a border.

2Sense 2. (Myth.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, and the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.

3Sense 3. Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See TERM, 8.

4Sense 4. The extreme point at either end of a piece of railway;