terminate
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Definitions ofterminate
- To end, especially in an incomplete state.
Example: "to terminate a surface by a line"
- To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- To kill.
- To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
- Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
Example: "Mountains on the Moon cast shadows that are very dark, terminate and more distinct than those cast by mountains on the Earth."
- Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
Example: "One third is a recurring decimal, but one half is a terminate decimal."
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