- to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- to occur at or form the conclusion of: The countess's soliloquy terminates the play.
- to bound or limit spatially; form or be situated at the extremity of.
- to dismiss from a job; fire: to terminate employees during a recession.
- to end, conclude, or cease.
- (of a train, bus, or other public conveyance) to end a scheduled run at a certain place: This train terminates in New York.
- to come to an end (often followed by at, in, or with).
- to issue or result (usually followed by in).
- to form, be, or put an end (to); conclude
- to connect (suitable circuitry) to the end of an electrical transmission line to absorb the energy and avoid reflections
- (of a decimal expansion) to have only a finite number of digits
- to kill (someone)
