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literally
- terminal: the end of an electric wire
- console: cabinet
- tty: abbreviation for teletypewriter
- shell: the home of a turtle
in unix terminology
- terminal: text IO environment
- console: physical terminal
- tty: a command to print the file name of the terminal connected to std-input
- shell: command line interpreter