• Partly from post-classicalLatinterminator (5th century), fromLatinterminō; partly fromterminate +‎-or.
• (android that kills humans): After the 1984 filmThe Terminator.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈtɜː.mɪ.neɪ.tə/

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• (General American,Canada)IPA^(key):/ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.tɚ/,[ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.ɾɚ]
• (General Australian)IPA^(key):/ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.tə/,[ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.ɾə]
• Hyphenation:ter‧mi‧na‧tor
• Rhymes:-eɪtə(ɹ)

terminator (pluralterminators)

1. Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) anassassin orexterminator.[from 17th c.]
2. (computing) Atextcharacter orstring that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
3. (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of amoon,planet or other celestial body.[from 17th c.]

   Synonym:twilight zone

   • 2015, David Wootton,The Invention of Science, Penguin, published2016, page218:

     Harriot, looking at the moon, saw the irregularterminator, 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) ADNA sequence that causesRNAtranscription to cease and anmRNA transcript to break off.[from 20th c.]
5. (electronics) Anelectricaldevice that absorbsreflection at the end of atransmission line.
6. (science fiction) Anintelligentandroid created to destroy humans.
   • 2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn,Education Out of Bounds, page 1:

     Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such asterminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

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

• antitremor

Internationalism, ultimately from post-classicalLatinterminātor.

• (Standard Indonesian)IPA^(key):/tərmiˈnator/[t̪ər.miˈna.t̪ɔr]
• Rhymes:-ator
• Syllabification:ter‧mi‧na‧tor

terminator (pluralterminator-terminator)

1. terminator:
   1. (astronomy) the line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body
   2. (computing) a text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission

• “terminator” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

Late Latin, fromterminō(“define, limit, end”) +‎-tor, fromterminus(“end, limit”).

terminātor m (genitiveterminātōris);third declension

1. he who sets bounds

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

terminātor

1. second/third-personsingularfuturepassiveimperative ofterminō

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

Fromtermin +‎-ator.

• IPA^(key):/tɛr.miˈna.tɔr/

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

terminator m pers (female equivalentterminatorka)

1. (obsolete)apprentice

terminator m inan

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

• terminator in Polish dictionaries at PWN