termination
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /tɚmɪˈneɪʃən/
termination
- The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
- The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
- An end in time; a conclusion.
- An end in space; an edge or limit.
- An outcome or result.
- The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
- 1849, E. A. Andrews, A First Latin Book; Or Progressive Lessons in Reading and Writing Latin, 2nd edition, Boston, p. 52 and 69:
- 1. Some adjectives of the third declension have three terminations in the nominative singular,—one for each gender; some two,—one for the masculine and feminine, the other for the neuter; and some, only one for all genders.
- 1. Verbs whose terminations are alike, are said to be of the same conjugation.
2. Latin verbs are divided into four conjugations.
- 1849, E. A. Andrews, A First Latin Book; Or Progressive Lessons in Reading and Writing Latin, 2nd edition, Boston, p. 52 and 69:
- (medical) An induced abortion.
- (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
- The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
- (process of terminating): discontinuation, stoppage
- (state of being termined): discontinuation
- (process of firing an employee): discharge, dismissal
- (end in time): close, conclusion, end, finale, finish, stop
- (end in space): border, edge, end, limit, lip, rim, tip
- (outcome): consequence, outcome, result, upshot
- (last part of a word) ending
- (medical): abortion, induced abortion
- (process of terminating or the state of being terminated) continuation
- French: terminaison
- German: Abbruch, Kündigung
- Spanish: terminación
- French: fin
- Spanish: terminación, final, fin
- Spanish: final, terminación
- French: terminaison
- German: Endung
- Portuguese: terminação, desinência
- Russian: оконча́ние
- Spanish: terminación, desinencia
- Portuguese: aborto
- French: terminaison
- Italian: terminazione
- Portuguese: terminação
- Spanish: terminación
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