Terminal in english
pronunciation: tɜrmənəl part of speech: adjective, noun
terminal1 = console ; display terminal ; search station.
Example: Consoles would replace the conventional catalogue and would provide the facility for browsing now afforded by the open stacks.Example: A librarian can use the display terminal at his or her desk to search all catalogs and files online.Example: The article 'The double-up program' describes an easy way to utilize multiple CD-ROM products on the same search station.more:
» conexión de terminal dedicada = dedicated terminal connection [Línea directa que conecta el ordenador que contiene la información con un terminal remoto] .
Example: Access to remote services is more often than not by means of dedicated terminal connections.» emulación de terminales de ordenador = terminal emulation .
Example: This includes terminal emulation to access popular online catalogues or other systems allowing remote access.» interrogar un terminal = poll + a terminal [Usado generalmente en informática] .
Example: One factor affecting the efficiency of OPACs (On-line public access catalogues) is the amount of time that is allowed to elapse between user entries before the computer assumes that the terminal is abandoned and stops polling the terminal (called the interactive timeout interval or ITI).» operador de terminal = terminal operator .
Example: The OSU (Ohio State University) system employs telephone access to an online catalog via terminal operators.» terminal remoto = remote terminal [Situada a cierta distancia del ordenador del que depende] .
Example: SWALCAP supports a network arrangement of remote terminals and minicomputers linked to the central computer via private lines.» terminal con pantalla sensible al tacto = touch terminal .
Example: Peripherals will improve, note the introduction of touch terminals, and other significant developments are in the offing such as the flat-screen monitor which can be hung on a wall.» terminal de conexión mediante llamada telefónica = dial-in terminal .
Example: Peripherals include dial-in terminals and voice synthesisers.» terminal de devolución = discharge terminal .
Example: The discharge terminal is equipped with another data pen and this is used to read the books' bar code labels when they are returned.» terminal de impresión = typewriter terminal .
Example: The system checks that the number is valid and then prints the label at the typewriter terminal associated with the display terminal.» terminal de ordenador = terminal [Pantalla de ordenador y teclado conectados a un ordenador central para enviar y recibir información] ; computer terminal .
Example: Terminals for use in online searching may be printer or Visual Display Units, and may often contain both components. Example: In theory, any computer terminal or personal computer can use teletex, with an appropriate adaptor.» terminal de préstamo = issue terminal .
Example: The issue terminal also incorporates a warning light in case a reserved book has slipped through the system and found its way on to the shelves.» terminal en línea = online terminal .
Example: Access to the contents of data bases is via some computer-searching technique, often using an online terminal.» terminal inteligente = intelligent terminal [Terminal de un ordenador multipuesto capaz de funcionar individualmente sin necesidad de depender de la memoria central del macroordenador] .
Example: Roy Adams has developed an intelligent terminal capable of storing loan requests and transmitting them to the British Library Lending Division (BLLD).» terminal tonto = dumb terminal .
Example: Microcomputers with communications software are replacing the older dumb terminals for remote access to on-line data bases.» utilizar un terminal = sit at + a terminal .
Example: Our system allowed us to accept four messages and queue them so that the person sitting at a terminal thought s/he was the only person on.terminal2 = terminal.
Example: Whenever I arrive at a terminal with extra time before my flight, I always look for an open electrical outlet to plug in my laptop.more:
» edificio de la terminal = terminal building .
Example: Just across the street from the terminal building, the parkade offers the perfect spot for business passengers or those who simply prefer the convenience of being close to the airport.terminal3 = terminus.
Example: The article is entitled 'The terminal and the terminus: the prospect of free online bibliographic searching'.terminal4 = life threatening.
Example: The study also investigated whether persons who had consulted the book before committing suicide had life threatening medical illnesses.more:
» en fase terminal = terminally ill .
Example: This article identifies and discusses types of situation one may encounter when working with older adults who are terminally ill.» enfermedad terminal = terminal illness .
Example: Changes can also be seen in attitudes towards children suffering from serious or terminal illnesses.» enfermo en fase terminal = terminally ill patient .
Example: Terminally ill patients often have concerns in areas such as donation of body parts, right to die a natural death, and other questions.» enfermos en fase terminal, los = terminally ill, the .
Example: Your donation today will enable us to continue to advocate for the right of the terminally ill to die with dignity.» enfermos terminales, los = terminally ill, the .
Example: Your donation today will enable us to continue to advocate for the right of the terminally ill to die with dignity.» enfermo terminal = terminally ill patient ; terminal patient .
Example: Terminally ill patients often have concerns in areas such as donation of body parts, right to die a natural death, and other questions. Example: This book is intended to help the counselor learn to work with terminal patients.» ficha de dígito terminal = terminal digit card .
Example: Sometimes known as term cards, terminal digit cards have the document numbers listed on each card arranged in an order which is designed to facilitate scanning and comparison of lists of numbers.terminal5 = overhang.
Example: Alternatively vowels could be cast without accents as kerned letters, with bodies only half as wide as usual, part of the face being cast on the overhang, or kern.terminal6 = kern.
Example: Indeed, the Clarendon Press kept a Napier double platen machine at work until 1950 for the sake of its gentleness with the delicate kerns of Fell italic.more:
» con terminales = serifed .
Example: There were, first, the traditional serifed roman exaggerated by about 1806 into fat face by a great increase in contrast between thick and thin strokes.» terminal ahorquillado = forked serif .
Example: There were also various mid-century decorated letters with forked or clubbed serifs which generally tended towards fat-face, but which might be intermediate in form.» terminal curviforme = bracketed serif .
Example: The baroque designers retained the sloped and bracketed serifs that derived from obliquely-stressed pen forms.» terminal en porra = clubbed serif .
Example: There were also various mid-century decorated letters with forked or clubbed serifs which generally tended towards fat-face, but which might be intermediate in form.