Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːmɪneɪ̯t/Category:English 3-syllable words#TERMINATECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TERMINATE

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝmɪneɪ̯t/Category:English 3-syllable words#TERMINATECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TERMINATE

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• Hyphenation: ter‧mi‧nate

Verb

terminate (third-person singular simple present terminates, present participle terminating, simple past and past participle terminated)Category:English lemmas#TERMINATECategory:English verbs#TERMINATECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TERMINATECategory:Pages with entries#TERMINATECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TERMINATE

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TERMINATE) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.

   to terminate a process before its completionCategory:English terms with usage examples#TERMINATE

   to terminate an effort, or a controversyCategory:English terms with usage examples#TERMINATE

   • 1857, John Scandrett Harford, The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti:

     During this interval of calm and prosperity, he terminated two figures of slaves, destined for the tomb, in an incomparable style of art.

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TERMINATE) To conclude.
3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TERMINATE) To set or be a limit or boundary to.

   to terminate a surface by a lineCategory:English terms with usage examples#TERMINATE

5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TERMINATE) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.

   We'll rough them all in before we start terminating any of them.

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6. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TERMINATE) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
7. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#TERMINATE, euphemisticCategory:English euphemisms#TERMINATE) To kill someone or something.

   The enemy must be terminated by any means possible.Category:English terms with usage examples#TERMINATE

8. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#TERMINATE) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 102:

     She unlocked the casket which contained her mother's picture, and gazed even more earnestly than usual on that beautiful face; its frank, glad smile was too painful; it seemed an omen of all that could make a joyous and beloved existence; and yet how had her's terminated!

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9. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#TERMINATE) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.

   This train terminates at the next station.Category:English terms with usage examples#TERMINATE

   • 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170:

     It is a branch that climbs for 11½ miles into the picturesque Wealden hills until, apparently exhausted by the effort, it terminates a mile short of the village of Hawkhurst.

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   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:

     After dropping off travellers at Foregate Street, my train terminates at Shrub Hill - a station which boasts one of the best selection [sic] of semaphore signals left in the country.

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10. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#TERMINATE) To issue or result.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝmɪnət/Category:English 3-syllable words#TERMINATECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TERMINATE
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːmɪnət/Category:English 3-syllable words#TERMINATECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TERMINATE
• Hyphenation: ter‧mi‧nate

Adjective

terminate (comparative more terminate, superlative most terminate)Category:English lemmas#TERMINATECategory:English adjectives#TERMINATECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TERMINATECategory:Pages with entries#TERMINATECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TERMINATE

1. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
2. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.

   Mountains on the Moon cast shadows that are very dark, terminate and more distinct than those cast by mountains on the Earth.Category:English terms with usage examples#TERMINATE

3. (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#TERMINATE) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

   One third is a recurring decimal, but one half is a terminate decimal.Category:English terms with usage examples#TERMINATE

Verb

terminateCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#TERMINATECategory:Italian verb forms#TERMINATECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#TERMINATECategory:Pages with entries#TERMINATECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TERMINATE

1. inflection of terminare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

terminate f plCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#TERMINATECategory:Italian past participle forms#TERMINATECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#TERMINATECategory:Pages with entries#TERMINATECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TERMINATE

1. feminine plural of terminato