Terminus

['tɜːmɪnəs] or ['tɝmɪnəs]

解释:

(noun.) either end of a railroad or bus route.

(noun.) (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome.

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解释:

(n.) Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

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

(n.) Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.

(n.) Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.

录入:谢里夫

同义词及近义词：

n. [L. pl. Termini.] Limit, boundary, mete, term.

手打:马吉

解释:

n. the end or extreme point: one of the extreme points of a railway &c.: the ancient Roman god of boundaries:—pl. Ter′mini (ī).—ns. Ter′miner (law) the act of determining; Ter′minism the theological doctrine that there is a limit in the life of each man and of mankind for the operation of grace; Ter′minist one who believes in terminism.

录入:劳伦斯