James Balog

The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.

American Photographer

Rich Sommer

I wonder if games are maybe a terminus for ideas. Things can be books or movies or operas or plays, but once they're a game, that's where they should end. Things shouldn't start as games and be taken to movies.

American Actor

Sam Kean

Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

American Writer

E. M. Forster

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

English Novelist

Often signifies the end of processes or lifespans, not just physical routes.

Metaphorical Use

May refer to the end of abstract concepts, like a period of time.

Not Always Literal

Implies a busy, central place where journeys start or finish.

Transport Hub

May symbolize development or historical importance in a city.

Cultural Significance

Indicates the very last stop, beyond which the vehicle does not go.

Specific Location

Understanding terminus can help plan journeys better, knowing your final stop.

Travel Planning

In biology, indicates precise endpoints of structures, important for DNA study.

Biological Context

Often used in scientific disciplines to give precision to descriptions.

Technical Vocabulary

 quite as nice and and you can clearly see the proof is in the pudding this afternoon as the ants have raided the termite nest they're still going after them they're taking them back one by one decimating the colony's population of terminus but they haven't got too far to walk and it's actually not uncommon to

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 with an eastern terminus in Chicago, where he happened to own real estate. For his proposal to succeed, Douglas felt that the territories through which the railroad passed, would have to be formally organized, which required the support of Southern politicians.

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 And here, if you watch, you can see the terminus retreating. You can see this river being formed. You can see it deflating.

Terminus