terminator
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
terminator (plural terminators)
- Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator. [from 17th c.]
- (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body. [from 17th c.]
- 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin 2016, p. 218:
- Harriot, looking at the moon, saw the irregular terminator, the highlights and shadows, the mountain ranges and valleys that Galileo had described – and he also convinced himself that he saw Galileo's imaginary crater.
- 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin 2016, p. 218:
- (biochemistry) A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off. [from 20th c.]
- (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
- (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans (after the 1984 film The Terminator).
- (astronomy) grey line, separatrix (the general term for such lines)
- Portuguese: terminador
- Russian: терминатор
- Portuguese: terminador
- Russian: терминатор
- French: terminateur
- Russian: терминатор
- French: terminateur
- German: Nachtlinie
- Portuguese: terminador
- Russian: терминатор
- German: Terminator
- Portuguese: exterminador
- Russian: термина́тор
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