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ter'minal junc'ture
Phonet.
a form of juncture consisting of a change in pitch before a pause, marking the end of an utterance or a break between utterances, as between clauses. Cf.
close juncture, juncture (def. 7),
open juncture. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.