terminator
English
Etymology
Partly from post-classical (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin terminator (5th century), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin terminō; partly from terminate + -or.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ter‧mi‧na‧tor
Noun
terminator (plural terminators)
- Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator. [from 17th c.]
- (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body. [from 17th c.]
- 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin 2016, p. 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.
- 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin 2016, p. 218:
- (biochemistry) A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off. [from 20th c.]
- (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
- (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans (after the 1984 film The Terminator).
Synonyms
- (astronomy): grey line, separatrix (the general term for such lines)
Translations
one who terminates
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a DNA sequence
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an electrical device
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the line between the day side and the night side
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an AI machine in science fiction
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Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) terminātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of terminō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of terminō
References
- “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.
Polish
Noun
terminator m pers
Declension
Declension of terminator
singular | plural | |
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nominative | terminator | terminatorzy |
genitive | terminatora | terminatorów |
dative | terminatorowi | terminatorom |
accusative | terminator | terminatorów |
instrumental | terminatorem | terminatorami |
locative | terminatorze | terminatorach |
vocative | terminatorze | terminatorzy |
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- English terms derived from Latin
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- English 4-syllable words
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- English lemmas
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