TERMINATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does terminator mean? 

• TERMINATOR (noun)
  The noun TERMINATOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)

  Familiarity information: TERMINATOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERMINATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

eradicator; exterminator; terminator

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

killer; slayer (someone who causes the death of a person or animal)

 Context examples 

In the second study, scientists explored the mechanism for how a terminator event could trigger the start of a new sunspot cycle.

('Terminators' on the sun trigger plasma tsunamis, start of new solar cycles, National Science Foundation)

In one of the studies, which relies on nearly 140 years of solar observations from the ground and from space, the scientists were able to identify terminator events that clearly mark the end of a sunspot cycle.

('Terminators' on the sun trigger plasma tsunamis, start of new solar cycles, National Science Foundation)