What is meant by a "terminal window" in my browser?

[Mark S. Pelkey]

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[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

It means "a program that runs a terminal emulator so you can type commands in, rather than click on stuff in a gui".

A slightly better phrase would be "command line".

[Mark S. Pelkey]

Thank you, Nic.  I googled it and apparently this is a term used for Mac's.  I have only used Windows my entire life.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

>I googled it and apparently this is a term used for Mac's. 

The built-in one is called terminal, and a lot of Atlassian's use Macs.  (I'm a Linux user mostly, but even there, the language is things like xTerm, Term, Terminal, iterm, terminator etc)

>I have only used Windows my entire life.

I'm sorry for your pain   .  Hopefully "command line" helped lead you to start -> run -> cmd