TERMINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does termination mean? 

• TERMINATION (noun)
  The noun TERMINATION has 5 senses:

1. a coming to an end of a contract period

2. a place where something ends or is complete

3. something that results

4. the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)

5. the act of ending something

  Familiarity information: TERMINATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERMINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coming to an end of a contract period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

expiration; expiry; termination

Context example:

the expiry of his driver's license

Hypernyms ("termination" is a kind of...):

end; ending (the point in time at which something ends)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A place where something ends or is complete

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

end point; endpoint; termination; terminus

Hypernyms ("termination" is a kind of...):

end; terminal (either extremity of something that has length)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something that results

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

final result; outcome; result; resultant; termination

Context example:

he listened for the results on the radio

Hypernyms ("termination" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; finish (event whose occurrence ends something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "termination"):

denouement (the outcome of a complex sequence of events)

deal (the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement))

decision (the outcome of a game or contest)

decision ((boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred)

aftermath; consequence (the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual)

separation (the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal))

sequel; subsequence (something that follows something else)

worst (the least favorable outcome)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ending; termination

Context example:

I don't like words that have -ism as an ending

Hypernyms ("termination" is a kind of...):

morpheme (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "termination"):

postfix; suffix (an affix that is added at the end of the word)

inflectional ending; inflectional suffix (an inflection that is added at the end of a root word)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The act of ending something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conclusion; ending; termination

Context example:

the termination of the agreement

Hypernyms ("termination" is a kind of...):

change of state (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "termination"):

demonetisation; demonetization (ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country)

discontinuance; discontinuation (the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent))

deactivation; defusing (the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb))

abortion (termination of pregnancy)

disappearance; fade (gradually ceasing to be visible)

extinction; extinguishing; quenching (the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning)

closedown; closing; closure; shutdown (termination of operations)

drug withdrawal; withdrawal (the termination of drug taking)

liquidation; settlement (termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities)

abolishment; abolition (the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery))

kill; killing; putting to death (the act of terminating a life)

discharge; dismissal; dismission; firing; liberation; release; sack; sacking (the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart))

adjournment; dissolution (the termination of a meeting)

overthrow (the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force))

breakup; dissolution (the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations))

relinquishing; relinquishment (the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.)

retirement (withdrawal from your position or occupation)

closing; completion; culmination; mop up; windup (a concluding action)

release; tone ending ((music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone)

abort (the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed)

destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)

Derivation:

terminate (bring to an end or halt)

 Context examples 

Studies indicate girodazole acts during the elongation/termination steps of protein synthesis, resulting in protein synthesis inhibition.

(Girodazole, NCI Thesaurus)

A place of termination or completion.

(End Point, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the total number of instances in which there has been a termination of pregnancy happening before the fetus is able to sustain independent life.

(Number of Abortions, NCI Thesaurus)

The termination of life associated with an adverse event.

(Death Related to Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)

Resulting in termination of the program.

(Fatal (Computer Sense), NCI Thesaurus)

To come to a close or end of useable period; termination.

(Expiration, NCI Thesaurus)

The termination of life as a result of an adverse event.

(Death Related to Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

But I was impatient to arrive at the termination of my journey.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In DNA or RNA, a sequence of 3 consecutive nucleotides that codes for a specific amino acid or signals the termination of gene translation (stop or termination codon).

(Codon, NCI Dictionary)

The terminology that includes concepts relevant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard for the Exchange of Non-clinical Data (SEND) method of termination.

(CDISC SEND Method of Termination Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)