terminus

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The final point; the end.
2. n. An end point on a transportation line or the town in which it is located.
3. n. A boundary or border.
4. n. A stone or post marking a border.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A boundary; a limit; a stone, post, or other mark used to indicate the boundary of a property.
2. n. [capitalized] In Roman mythology, the god of boundaries; the deity who presided over boundaries or landmarks. He was represented with a human head, but without feet or arms, to intimate that he never moved from whatever place he occupied.
3. n. A bust or figure of the upper part of the human body, terminating in a plain block of rectangular form; a half-statue or bust, not placed upon but incorporated with, and as it were immediately springing out of, the square pillar which serves as its pedestal. Termini are employed as pillars, balusters, or detached ornaments for niches, etc. Compare gaine. Also called term and terminal figure.
4. n. Termination; limit; goal; end.
5. n. The extreme station at either end of a railway, or important section of a railway.
6. n. The point to which a vector carries a given or assumed point.

Wiktionary

1. n. The end or final point of something.
2. n. The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
3. n. A boundary or border, or a post or stone marking such a boundary.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
2. n. (Myth.) 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.
3. n. Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.
4. n. Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the ultimate goal for which something is done
2. n. station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
3. n. (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
4. n. either end of a railroad or bus route
5. n. a place where something ends or is complete