terminate

Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːmɪneɪ̯t/

The English word “terminate” has 12 meanings listed here.

verb

To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
To conclude.
To set or be a limit or boundary to.
To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
To kill someone or something.
To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
To issue or result.

adjective

Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

Etymology

From Middle English terminaten (“to bring to an end; to adjudicate; to end, stop; to border, confine, contain”) from terminat(e) (“bounded”, also used as the past participle of terminaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin terminātus, perfect passive participle of terminō (“to set bounds to, bound, limit, end, close, terminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from terminus (“a…

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