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TERMINATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of ending something
Example:
the termination of the agreement
Synonyms:
conclusion; ending; termination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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"):
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)
abort (the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed)
demonetisation; demonetization (ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country)
release; tone ending ((music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone)
closing; completion; culmination; mop up; windup (a concluding action)
retirement (withdrawal from your position or occupation)
relinquishing; relinquishment (the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.)
breakup; dissolution (the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations))
overthrow (the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force))
adjournment; dissolution (the termination of a meeting)
discharge; dismissal; dismission; firing; liberation; release; sack; sacking (the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart))
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
Example:
I don't like words that have -ism as an ending
Synonyms:
ending; termination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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 3
Meaning:
Something that results
Example:
he listened for the results on the radio
Synonyms:
final result; outcome; result; resultant; termination
Classified under:
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:
A place where something ends or is complete
Synonyms:
end point; endpoint; termination; terminus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("termination" is a kind of...):
end; terminal (either extremity of something that has length)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A coming to an end of a contract period
Example:
the expiry of his driver's license
Synonyms:
expiration; expiry; termination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("termination" is a kind of...):
end; ending (the point in time at which something ends)
Context examples:
A disorder characterized by an electrocardiographic finding of episodic atrial fibrillation with abrupt onset and termination.
(Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation, NCI Thesaurus)
An indication that a medication schedule was modified through termination of a prescribed regimen of medication.
(Drug Withdrawn, NCI Thesaurus)
A measurement of the total number of instances in which there has been a spontaneous termination of pregnancy (miscarriage) or elective termination of pregnancy.
(Number of Abortions, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Mitochondria contain distinctive ribosomes, transfer RNAs, amino acyl t-RNA synthetases, and elongation and termination factors.
(Mitochondrion, NCI Thesaurus)
By nonsense-mediated decay, mRNA surveillance facilitates the detection and destruction of mRNAs that contain premature termination codons.
(mRNA Surveillance, NCI Thesaurus)
The uterus is not entirely emptied of products of conception following spontaneous, medical or operative pregnancy termination.
(Incomplete Abortion, NCI Thesaurus)
A missense non-synonymous SNP results in an amino acid change in the protein product due to a codon change, while a nonsense non-synonymous SNP results in a termination codon.
(Non-synonymous Coding SNP, NCI Thesaurus)
A sequence of nucleotides in that contains no termination codons and so can potentially translate as a polypeptide chain.
(Open Reading Frame, NCI Thesaurus)
A mutation that alters the genetic code in a way that causes the premature termination of a protein.
(Nonsense Mutation, NCI Dictionary)
This locks DNA polymerase thereby resulting in "masked termination" during DNA replication.
(Gemcitabine, NCI Thesaurus)
