terminate

Borrowed from Latin terminātus, past participle of terminō (“I set bounds to, bound, limit, end, close, terminate”), from terminus (“a bound, limit, end”); see term, terminus. Doublet of termine.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝmɪneɪt/

terminate (third-person singular simple present terminates, present participle terminating, simple past and past participle terminated)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To end, especially in an incomplete state.

   to terminate a surface by a line

   to terminate an effort, or a controversy

   • (Can we date this quote by J. S. Harford?)

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

2. (transitive or intransitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
3. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
4. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.

• (to end incompletely): discontinue, stop, break off
• (to kill): See also Thesaurus:kill

• (to end incompletely): continue

• abort

• terminate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• terminate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

terminate (comparative more terminate, superlative most 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.

3. (mathematics) 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.

• “terminate” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

• Marinette, antimeter, intermate, tetramine, tretamine

terminate

1. second-person plural present indicative of terminare
2. second-person plural present subjunctive of terminare
3. second-person plural imperative of terminare

terminate f pl

1. feminine plural of terminato

• attenermi
• meritante

termināte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of terminō

• terminate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press