TERMINATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does terminated mean? 

• TERMINATED (adjective)
  The adjective TERMINATED has 2 senses:

1. having come or been brought to a conclusion

2. (of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end

  Familiarity information: TERMINATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERMINATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having come or been brought to a conclusion

Synonyms:

all over; complete; concluded; ended; over; terminated

Context example:

the abruptly terminated interview

Similar:

finished (ended or brought to an end)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end

Similar:

expired (having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time)

Domain category:

contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)

 Context examples 

This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But this day, as I noted them pacing up and down, I saw that it was she who terminated the walk.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He had been on a whaling voyage in the Arctic, once—a voyage that was to have been for three years and which had terminated in shipwreck at the end of six months.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The hills which surrounded the cottage terminated the valley in that direction; under another name, and in another course, it branched out again between two of the steepest of them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Aberrant pathways can be terminated by ablation.

(Cardiac Electrophysiology Study, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of tachycardia that is usually terminated by the administration of adenosine.

(Adenosine-Sensitive Ventricular Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

An Initial Review Group that was terminated in June 1996.

(Comprehensiveness Subcommittee B, NCI Thesaurus)

The calendar date on which an activity is terminated or completed.

(End Date, NCI Thesaurus)

By the time that exercise was terminated, day had fully dawned.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated.

(Cutoff, NCI Thesaurus)