Dictionary Definition
termination
Noun
1 a coming to an end of a contract period; "the
expiry of his driver's license" [syn: expiration, expiry]
3 something that results; "he listened for the
results on the radio" [syn: result, resultant, final
result, outcome]
4 the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional
ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an
ending" [syn: ending]
5 the act of ending something; "the termination
of the agreement" [syn: ending, conclusion]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Synonyms
- (process of terminating): conluding, ending, finishing, stoping, terminating
- (state of being termined):
- (end in time): close, conclusion, end, finale, finish, stop
- (end in space): border, edge, end, limit, lip, rim, tip
- (outcome): consequence, outcome, result, upshot
- (medical): abortion, induced abortion
Translations
The process of terminating or the state of being
terminated
- Finnish: lopettaminen
The process of firing an employee
- Finnish: irtisanominen
An end in time; a conclusion
- French: fin
An end in space; an edge or limit
An outcome or result
The last part of a word; a suffix
- Dutch: uitgang
- Finnish: pääte
- French: terminaison
An induced abortion
- Finnish: raskaudenkeskeytys, abortti
Extensive Definition
Termination may refer to:
In science:
- Termination codon, in molecular biology
- Termination factor, in genetics, part of the process of transcribing RNA
- Termination type, in lithic reduction, a characteristic indicating the manner in which the distal end of a lithic flake detaches from a core
- Chain termination, in chemistry, a chemical reaction which halts polymerization
- Termination proof, a type of mathematical proof
- Termination shock, in solar studies, a feature of the heliosphere
In technology:
- Termination analysis, a form of program analysis in computer science
- Electrical termination, ending a wire or cable properly to prevent interference
- Call termination, the handing off of calls from one telephone company to another
Other uses:
- Termination of employment, the end of an employee's duration with an employer
- Indian termination policy, U.S. government policy affecting status of Native Americans, implemented in 1953
- Terminate with extreme prejudice, a euphemism for assassination
- Abortion, as the termination of a pregnancy
- "Termination", a song by Iron Butterfly on their 1968 album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
See also
- Terminator (disambiguation)
termination in German: Terminierung
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Z, abandonment, abortion, apodosis, bitter end, breakoff, catastrophe, cease, ceasing, cessation, climax, close, closing, coda, completing, completion, conclusion, consummation, crack of
doom, culmination,
curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, desinence, desistance, destination, destiny, discontinuance, discontinuation,
doom, effect, end, end point, end result, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final result, final solution,
final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, finishing, full development,
goal, issue, izzard, last, last act, last breath, last
gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, maturation, maturity, omega, outcome, payoff, perfection, period, peroration, quietus, relinquishment, renunciation, resolution, resting place,
result, ripeness, rounding off,
rounding out, shutdown,
stop, stoppage, stopping, stopping place,
suffix, surcease, swan song, term, terminal, terminus, topping off, windup