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TERMINUS
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Irregular inflected form: termini
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("terminus" is a kind of...):
station (a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "terminus"):
air terminal; airport terminal (a terminal that serves air travelers or air freight)
bus depot; bus station; bus terminal; coach station (a terminal that serves bus passengers)
cathode (the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current)
railroad station; railroad terminal; railway station; train depot; train station (terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods)
subway station (a terminal where subways load and unload passengers)
Holonyms ("terminus" is a part of...):
transit; transportation; transportation system (a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Either end of a railroad or bus route
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("terminus" is a kind of...):
end; terminal (either extremity of something that has length)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(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
Synonyms:
term; terminal figure; terminus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("terminus" is a kind of...):
statue (a sculpture representing a human or animal)
Domain category:
architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The ultimate goal for which something is done
Synonyms:
destination; terminus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("terminus" is a kind of...):
end; goal (the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it)
Derivation:
terminate (be the end of; be the last or concluding part of)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A place where something ends or is complete
Synonyms:
end point; endpoint; termination; terminus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("terminus" is a kind of...):
end; terminal (either extremity of something that has length)
Derivation:
terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Context examples:
This protein is comprised of the N-terminal nucleoporin GLFG repeat domains of the nuclear pore complex protein Nup98-Nup96 protein fused to the C-terminus of the SET-binding protein.
(NUP98/SETBP1 Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
E1A N-terminus binds pRb and p300/CBP regulators.
(Oncogene E1A, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is comprised of most of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase regulatory subunit alpha protein, excluding the second SH2 domain, fused to the C-terminus of the ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 8 protein.
(PIK3R2/USP8 Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is comprised of the N-terminus of the nucleophosmin protein fused to the DNA-binding domain, ligand binding domain and coactivator recognition site from the retinoic acid receptor alpha protein.
(NPM1/RARA Long Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is comprised of the N-terminus of the nuclear pore complex protein Nup98-Nup96 protein fused to the C-terminus of the histone-lysine N-methyltransferase NSD3 protein.
(NUP98/WHSC1L1 Fusion Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
With 56% identity to Patched-1, mouse Patched-2 diverges in the hydrophilic region between transmembrane domains 6 and 7 and in a region of the intracellular C terminus.
(Patched Homolog 2, NCI Thesaurus)
The C-termini of some PH domains have also been reported to bind the beta/lambda subunits of heterotrimeric G proteins.
(PH Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is comprised of the transactivation domain of the RNA-binding protein EWS fused to the C-terminus of POZ-, AT hook-, and zinc finger-containing protein 1 containing two C2H2 zinc-finger DNA binding domains.
(EWSR1/PATZ1 Fusion Protein Long B Isoform, NCI Thesaurus)
MYC boxes I and II, found in the N termini of all members of the MYC protein family, function to direct the degradation of the c-MYC protein.
(MYC Box, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is comprised of the extreme N-terminus of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 fused to the entire cytoplasmic domain of the ALK tyrosine kinase receptor protein including the tyrosine kinase domain.
(EML4/ALK Fusion Protein Variant 5a, NCI Thesaurus)
