terminate
Word Statistics
Academic vocabulary
Regularly used in writing and speech
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Academic vocabulary
- • Standard complexity
1. To end, especially in an incomplete state.
"to terminate a surface by a line"
2. To set or be a limit or boundary to.
3. To kill.
4. To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
5. Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
Synonyms
≠ Antonyms
1. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
2. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
"Mountains on the Moon cast shadows that are very dark, terminate and more distinct than those cast by mountains on the Earth."
3. Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
"One third is a recurring decimal, but one half is a terminate decimal."
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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