terminate

Meaning of terminate

verb
  1. To end, especially in an incomplete state.
    to terminate a surface by a line
  2. To set or be a limit or boundary to.
  3. To kill.
  4. To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
  5. Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
adjective
  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. 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.

Information about terminate

  • The plural form of terminate is: terminates.
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Hyphenation of terminate

ter-mi-nate

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • terminate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

terminate synonyms

Meaning end:

end, stop, finish, cease

Meaning fire:

fire, can, dismiss, sack

Meaning :

discontinue, axe

terminate antonyms

Meaning :

continue

Translation of terminate

Anagrams of terminate

antimeter, attermine, interteam, Marinette, tetramine, tretamine

Words that rhyme with terminate

Nate, Alphanate, Banate, Bromanate, Depanate, Italianate, Lomanate, Plasmanate, Thiophanate, acetylglucopyranosylisothiocyanate, acetylphenylisothiocyanate, acetyltryptophanate, adamantylisocyanate, aldermanate, allophanate, alloxanate, allylisothiocyanate, allylthiocyanate, aminobenzylpenicilianate, aminoethylthiocyanate, aminopenicillanate, amoscanate, anate, applanate, azidophenylisothiocyanate, banate, benzoylisothiocyanate, benzylisothiocyanate, benzylthiocyanate, biphenyldiisocyanate, biphenylisothiocyanate, bisthiocyanate, bitoscanate, bromoallylisothiocyanate, bromoallylthiocyanate, bromobenzylisothiocyanate, bromopenicillanate, bromophenylisocyanate, bromophenylisothiocyanate, butenylisothiocyanate, butylcyanate, butylisothiocyanate, calpanate, cephalosporanate, chlorobenzylthiocyanate, chloroethylisocyanate, chloromethylthiocyanate, chlorophenylisothiocyanate, chlorophenylthiocyanate, chlorosulfonylisocyanate

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