# terminator
## English
### Etymology

* Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate +‎ -or.
* (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɜː.mɪ.neɪ.tə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.tɚ/, [ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.ɾɚ]
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.tə/, [ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.ɾə]
* Hyphenation: ter‧mi‧na‧tor
* Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

### Noun

terminator (plural terminators)
* Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator. [from 17th c.]
* (computing) A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
* (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body. [from 17th c.]
    Synonym: twilight zone
** 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 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.
* (biochemistry) A DNA sequence that 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.
** 2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

#### Synonyms

* (astronomy): grey line, separatrix (the general term for such lines)

#### Derived terms

* terminator pig

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* antitremor

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Internationalism, ultimately from post-classical Latin terminātor.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /tərmiˈnator/ [t̪ər.miˈna.t̪or]
* Rhymes: -ator
* Syllabification: ter‧mi‧na‧tor

### Noun

terminator (plural terminator-terminator)
* terminator:
** (astronomy) the line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body
** (computing) a text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission

#### Related terms

* termin
* terminal
* terminus

### Further reading

* “terminator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ter.miˈnaː.tor/, [t̪ɛrmɪˈnäːt̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ter.miˈna.tor/, [t̪ermiˈnäːt̪or]

### Etymology 1

Late Latin, from terminō (“define, limit, end”) +‎ -tor, from terminus (“end, limit”).

#### Noun

terminātor m (genitive terminātōris); third declension
* he who sets bounds

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

terminātor
* second/third-person singular future passive imperative of terminō

### References

* “terminator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "terminator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* terminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Polish
### Etymology

From termin +‎ -ator.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛr.miˈna.tɔr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -atɔr
* Syllabification: ter‧mi‧na‧tor

### Noun

terminator m pers (female equivalent terminatorka)
* (obsolete) apprentice

#### Declension
### Noun

terminator m inan
* (astronomy) terminator
* (electronics) terminator

#### Declension
### Further reading

* terminator in Polish dictionaries at PWN