terminator

• Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate +‎ -or.
• (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtəː.mɪ.neɪ.tə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.mɪ.neɪ.tɚ/
• Hyphenation: ter‧mi‧na‧tor
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

terminator (plural terminators)

1. Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator. [from 17th c.]
2. (computing) A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
3. (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body. [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: twilight zone

   • 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 218:

     Harriot, looking at the moon, saw the irregular terminator, the highlights and shadows, the mountain ranges and valleys that Galileo had described – and he also convinced himself that he saw Galileo's imaginary crater.

4. (biochemistry) A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off. [from 20th c.]
5. (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
6. (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans.

• (astronomy): grey line, separatrix (the general term for such lines)

• antitremor

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ter.miˈnaː.tor/, [t̪ɛrmɪˈnäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ter.miˈna.tor/, [t̪ermiˈnäːt̪or]

Late Latin, from terminō (“define, limit, end”) +‎ -tor, from terminus (“end, limit”).

terminātor m (genitive terminātōris); third declension

1. he who sets bounds

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

terminātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of terminō

• “terminator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• terminator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• terminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From termin +‎ -ator.

• IPA^(key): /tɛr.miˈna.tɔr/

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• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: ter‧mi‧na‧tor

terminator m pers (female equivalent terminatorka)

1. (obsolete) apprentice

terminator m inan

1. (astronomy) terminator
2. (electronics) terminator

• terminator in Polish dictionaries at PWN