terminate🔊

To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.

To conclude.

To set or be a limit or boundary to.

(form an appropriate end on (an object)) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.

To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.

(euphemistic) To kill someone or something.

To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.

Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.

To issue or result.

Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.

Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.

(mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.