Terminal vs PowerShell

Question

I am been currently studying AWS, and my online instructor uses "Windows PowerShell", however, I have always used "Hyper Terminal" for MERN stack. What is the difference between the two, and what sets this two apart from the Command Prompt?

Answer 1

Here is the simple answer:

PowerShell Preview replaced PowerShell, and PowerShell replaced Command Prompt (CMD).

Windows Terminal is an application that simply provides tabs to open multiple instances of PowerShell (Preview or legacy) and Command Prompt, as well as Azure cloud shell.

In Linux. you'll often hear the terms 'terminal' and 'console' used interchangeably, but they mean the same in Linux as they do in Windows. That is, console is the Linux alternative to the DOS style command prompt.