Terminal

• hardware An electronic or electromechanical device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and displaying data received. Early terminals were called teletypes, later ones VDUs. Typically a terminal communicates with the computer via a serial line.

• electronics The end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.

• electronics Apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line. (e.g. a telephone)

• voice over IP and telephony Generalised term which usually means telephone or other station or network device[?].

taken from FOLDOC