terminally

Etymology

terminal + -ly

adv

1. In a terminal manner.
2. Leading to death; lasting until death.
   terminally ill
   2009, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections from a Terminally Optimistic, Chronically Sarcastic, and Occasionally Inebriated Woman:
3. (military, of missile guidance) To the target.
   terminally guided
4. Located at the end.
   […] some of the feathers (especially posterior scapulars) with the broad edgings more rufescent and passing into whitish terminally; […] 1919, Robert Ridgway, Herbert Friedmann, The Birds of North and Middle America, Part 8, Issue 1919, page 276
   In its simplest form this approach uses a lattice with a single chain terminally attached to the interface. 2005, Terence Cosgrove, Colloid Science: Principles, methods and applications, page 119