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# terminate

«terminate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to end something or to come to an end: "the contract was…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (terminate, terminates, terminated, terminating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To terminate means to end something or to come to an end: "the contract was terminated". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#m1)

2) A train or bus that terminates at a place stops there and goes no further. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#m2)

3) (formal) To terminate someone's job means to end it; it is a stiff way of saying they were sacked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#m3)

4) In maths, a terminating decimal is one that stops, like 0.25, rather than going on for ever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths, a terminating decimal has a last digit (1/4 = 0.25), while 1/3 = 0.333… does not terminate. In everyday life you hear "this train terminates here, all change". In exam and office language terminate is the formal word for end or stop. Phrases: terminate a contract, terminate a call, terminating decimal, terminates at.

### examples

- This train terminates at the next station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#x1)
- The game will terminate if you press the red button. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#x2)
- One quarter is 0.25, a terminating decimal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#x3)
- One third is 0.333..., which never terminates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#x4)
- His contract was terminated after a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#x5)
- The path terminates at the edge of the cliff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#x6)
- The company terminated her employment without notice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#x7)
- They were walking and driving here and there from the sea to the land at the, spot where the river terminates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/#x8)

### note

Past form: terminated. Formal; in everyday speech people say "end" or "stop". Noun: termination; a terminal is a place where buses, trains or planes end their trips (or a computer screen). "The Terminator" in films is a killing robot, not the normal meaning.

### In the corpora

- ["Terminate with extreme prejudice" means assassinate, murder an important or chosen person on purpose (US spy slang).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «terminate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/terminate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.