termination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɚmɪˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: terminations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin terminationem (accusative of terminatio).
Senses: synonyms: discontinuation
stoppage
antonyms: continuation
glosses: The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
synonyms: discharge
dismissal
glosses: The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
synonyms: close
conclusion
end
finale
finish
stop
glosses: An end in time; a conclusion.
synonyms: border
edge
end
limit
lip
rim
tip
glosses: An end in space; an edge or limit.
examples: text: Long indeed did that morning appear to Francesca—the longer as her anxiety was unexpressed; for it certainly does shorten a period of waiting not a little to spend it in talking over its various probabilities of termination, wondering what will happen, while we are consoled by the strong sympathy we excite in the listener.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 111:
synonyms: consequence
outcome
result
upshot
glosses: An outcome or result.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1849, E. A. Andrews, A First Latin Book; Or Progressive Lessons in Reading and Writing Latin, 2nd edition, Boston, page 52 & 69:
text: Women's names were formed in the same way as men's, but with feminine terminations […]
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiii:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: ending
desinence
glosses: The last part of a word.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: abortion
induced abortion
glosses: An induced abortion.
examples: text: She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: 1808, Humphry Davy, The Bakerian Lecture, on some new Phenomena of chemical Changes produced by Electricity, particularly the Decomposition of the fixed Alkalis, and on the Exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases; and on the general Nature of alkaline Bodies, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part 1, p. 32.
[O]n this idea, in naming the bases of potash and soda, it will be proper to adopt the termination which, by common consent, has been applied to other newly discovered metals... Potasium and sodium are the names...
glosses: A word, a term.
glosses: The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
Derived terms: extermination
hinge termination
power of termination
termination codon
termination dust
termination shock
terminative
terminative case
Related terms: terminate