Terminus

Terminus may refer to:

Places

• Terminus, the original name of Atlanta, Georgia, United States
  • Terminus (office complex), an office complex in Atlanta
• Lagos Terminus railway station, the main railway station of Lagos, Nigeria

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional and mythological entities

• Doctor Terminus, a fictional character in Pete's Dragon (1977 film)
• Terminus (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
• Terminus (god), a Roman deity who protected boundary markers
• Terminus (planet), the home of the Foundation in Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels (1942–1993)
• Terminus, a location in Halo 4; also an achievement when the player finds it
• Terminus is the name of the world in RPG/TBS video game Ash of Gods: Redemption
• Terminus Series, a type of mecha in the anime series Eureka Seven
• Terminus Systems, part of the world of the Mass Effect media franchise
• Terminus, fictional city location in The Signal (2007 film)
• Terminus, a fictional sanctuary located in a train station, depicted in season 4 of the TV series The Walking Dead

Film

• Terminus (1961 film), a 1961 movie directed by John Schlesinger
• Terminus (1987 film), a 1987 movie directed by Pierre-William Glenn
• Terminus (2015 film), a 2015 movie directed by Marc Furmie

Games

• Terminus (1986 video game), a space prison escape game by Mastertronic
• Terminus (video game), a 2000 space-flight role-playing/action game by Vicarious Visions

Literature

• Terminus (play), a 2007 play by Marl O'Rowe
• "Terminus" (poem), written in 1866 by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Television

• Terminus (Doctor Who), a 1983 serial in the long-running science fiction TV series Doctor Who

Transportation

• Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end destination
• Terminal train station or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination
• the end point of any other piece of infrastructure (e.g. aqueducts)

Sciences

• Glacier terminus, the end, or "snout," of a glacier's ice at any given point in time
• terminus post quem, terminus ante quem, terminus ad quem, and terminus a quo, terms used to describe the limits of a timeframe during which a historical event may have happened in archaeology
• Terminus (weevil), a beetle genus in the tribe Pentarthrini

Other uses

• Leonard Rose (hacker), a.k.a. "Terminus", convicted hacker
• "Terminus", a finishing move of professional wrestler Damien Sandow
• Terminus Inc, a corporation that provides project management-based services

See also

• Terminal (disambiguation)
• Terminator (disambiguation)