terminationn.
/ˌtəːmᵻˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌtərməˈneɪʃən/ I. The action of terminating or of being terminated (in various senses).† 1. The action or an act of determining or deciding something. Also: a statement, a declaration. Obsolete.† 3. Direction to something as object or aim; a purpose, an end. Obsolete.† 4. Alchemy. Perhaps: an act of enclosing one substance within another. Cf. termine v. 4b. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun]
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redeOE
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man's dayc1384
termination1395
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Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 75 (MED) The terminacioun of the chirche of Rome boweth awei fro holi scripture and reesoun, for her owne pride and temporal wynnynge.
?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 359 (MED) The abbes..schal make al the terminacions in the chirche.
1455–6 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 290 Wythoute eny contradiccyon aftyr the termynacyon aforesayd.
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 60 (MED) The texte said that thei shulde neuir entre into þe londe of promission, but suffrid by divine terminacion [a1500 Newberry determinacyon] the deth oon aftir anothir in deserte.
1532 Seconde Dyalogue xii. f. 31v, in St German's Fyrst Dialogue in Englisshe (rev. ed.) If it be lefte to the terminacion of the lawe of man.
1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. 30v The deffinicion or terminacion of a vowe.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Loves Pilgrimage ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaaaaaa4/2 You can consider The want in others of these terminations, And how unfurnish'd they appear.
1671 A. Woodhead Considerations Council of Trent xii. 190 The chief Courts, to whom, beside the Roman Bishop, the termination of Appeales of moment is recommended.
2. † b. The action of bounding or delimiting; a separation by spatial limits. Obsolete.
a. The action of putting an end to something or of bringing something to a close.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > coming or bringing to an end > bringing to an end
termininga1425
termination1514
lapping1549
closing1580
closure1594
solution1655
perioding1659
clausure1670
1514 S. Appulby Fruyte of Redemcyon xiii. sig. B.iv The souper ended thou made a terminacyon of the olde testament begynnynge the newe.
1681 Arrest E. India Privatier 7 The present Conjuncture is opportune for the termination of this Company.
1799 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Apr. 365 There appeared to be no choice left in the adoption of means for the termination of the contest.
1829 A. Holmes Ann. Amer. (ed. 2) II. 452 While the war was prosecuted with vigour in America, a friendly power abroad interposed for its termination.
1897 K. Pearson Chances of Death II. xi. 104 I cannot now enter upon the causes which led to the termination of the brother-sister sexual relation.
1910 Expositor Oct. 290 Adultery alone justifies the termination of a marriage union.
1979 A. Storr Art of Psychotherapy xiii. 155 It is difficult to suggest exact criteria for the termination of treatment.
1996 P. Wilde Which? Guide to Renting & Letting (rev. ed.) xi. 160 The necessary formalities required by law, both in relation to the creation and termination of the tenancy.
2006 Daily Rec. Rochester (N.Y.) (Nexis) 6 Jan. Is the statute's standard for the termination of life support unconstitutionally vague?
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > action or fact of bounding
bounding1543
buttaling1571
termination1604
circumscriptiona1616
1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Termination, ending, finishing, or bounding.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 55 The water entring the body, begets a division of parts, and a termination of Atoms united before unto continuity. View more context for this quotation
c. The ending of a pregnancy before term by artificial means; induced abortion; an instance of this.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on sex organs > operations on female sex organs > obstetrical operations > for abortion
termination1904
illegal operation1910
vacuum aspiration1967
scrape1968
1904 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 19 Nov. 1531/1 It has always formerly been considered that the termination of pregnancy was indicated only in the presence of some acute condition which immediately and seriously threatened the life of the mother.
1922 C. C. Van Blarcom Obstetr. Nursing xiii. 309 Induced abortion applies to the termination of pregnancy before the child is viable,..and is performed solely in the interests of the mother, as the fetus is always lost.
1969 Times 3 July 7/6 Women denied a legal abortion commonly seek termination elsewhere.
1978 F. Weldon Praxis xxiv. 256 You can't possibly go through with the pregnancy... If you don't have a termination, you're finished.
2015 Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 8/2 Two doctors were filmed agreeing to carry out terminations because the unborn babies were girls.
d. Chemistry and Molecular Biology. Cessation of the addition of new units to a polymer, esp. a nucleic acid or protein molecule. Frequently attributive.termination codon: see Compounds.
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the world > matter > chemistry > polymer chemistry > polymerization > [noun] > termination
termination1934
1934 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 146 268 Termination of the chains, i.e., a cessation of increase in the size of the polymer, occurs by the collision of a chain carrier (polymer) with an acetylene molecule.
1965 S. Brenner et al. in Nature 5 June 994/1 We suggest that these codons [sc. UAG and UAA] are the normal recognition signals in messenger RNA for chain termination.
1978 G. Hayes & M. George in C. E. Carraher et al. Organometallic Polymers 16 In vinylferrocene polymerizations, the termination step is monomolecular.
2002 Science 22 Mar. 2205/3 The final module of the chain has a special termination (Te) domain that releases the protein, sometimes drawing it into a loop.
e. Originally U.S. Assassination (spec. of an intelligence agent), contract killing; an instance of this. More fully termination with extreme prejudice (cf. prejudice n. 4c).
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [noun] > of other specific types
deicide1611
negrocide1852
giganticide1860
theoktony1875
termination1969
1969 Amarillo (Texas) Globe-Times 22 Aug. 4/7 A Vietnamese civilian employee of the U.S. Army who apparently was suspected of being a double agent and who reportedly was the subject of an order for termination ‘with extreme prejudice’.
1975 N. Luard Robespierre Serial v. 28 The escort role..was one Carswell had carried out..before, although this was the first occasion where it involved a termination mission.
1983 G. Markstein Ferret 164 Terminations are no longer as fashionable as they were. Unless the top says so.
1993 J. Weber Targets of Opportunity xxxii. 243 The Agency referred to the slayings as ‘terminations with extreme prejudice’.
2005 J. D. Townsend Assassin's Dream xvii. 165 It was possible—for a price, of course—to get Angela Potemkin's name added to the termination list.
f. Dismissal from employment; an instance of this. Chiefly North American.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > dismissal or discharge
discharginga1398
discharge1523
quietus est1530
conduction1538
cassing1550
remove1553
destitution1554
mittimus1596
dismissionc1600
quietus1635
removal1645
cashierment1656
separation1779
dismissing1799
dismissala1806
to give (a person) the sack1825
bullet1841
congee1847
decapitation1869
G.B.1880
the shove1899
spear1912
bob-tail1915
severance1941
sacking1958
termination1974
1974 S. Terkel Working iv. 183 The case begins with a reprimand, a warning procedure. A lotta times they don't realize this is the first step to termination.
1982 Chicago Sun-Times 3 Dec. 89 He and fellow workers were informed of the terminations at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and told to ‘pack up and leave immediately’.
1993 Fort Collins (Colorado) Triangle Rev. 29 July 15/1 A golden parachute is a term for payments made at termination to a highly compensated officer through agreement with a board of directors.
2015 Keene (New Hampsh.) Sentinel (Nexis) 4 July An upheaval in the Keene State athletic department, resulting in the terminations and retirements of some of its highest-profile coaches.
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > purpose for which something intended
end1534
termination1576
ordination1607
intention1652
destinationa1656
1576 G. Gascoigne Droomme of Doomes Day sig. K.ii It [sc. the sinfull soule] proposeth vnto it selfe an ende and terminacion in frayle and vayne thinges.
1635 Bp. F. White Treat. Sabbath-day 96 It is not an Idol ratione termini, in respect of Termination, for the religious observation thereof is referred..to the honour of God and Christ.
1666 E. Reynolds Serm. Westm. 7 Nov. 1 Some graces.., having their proper termination in God and Christ, are therefore, as to their formal and immediate beauty, Invisible to any eye, but his who searcheth the Heart.
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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > miscellaneous other processes
englutingc1386
fermentationc1386
conjunctionc1400
cibation1471
separation1471
wheel1471
putrefactiona1550
termination1584
martyrization1612
restinction1617
illinition1678
immersion1683
interfection1727
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiv. i. 354 They are learned and iollie fellowes, that haue in such readinesse so many mysticall termes of art: as (for a tast) their subliming, amalgaming, engluting,..terminations, mollifications, and indurations of bodies.
II. The point or part at which something terminates or is terminated.
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a. An outcome, issue, result: = end n. 13. Also as a mass noun. Frequently with modifying adjective, in later use chiefly in happy termination, unhappy termination.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > outcome or that which results
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outcominga1382
conclusionc1384
endc1385
fruita1400
finec1405
termination?a1425
sumc1430
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success1537
event1539
pass1542
increase1560
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exit1570
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sequence1600
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resultance1616
upshut1620
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prosult1647
offcome1666
resultant1692
outlet1710
period1713
outcome1788
outrun1801
outcome1808
upset1821
overcome1822
upping1828
summary1831
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upcomec1874
out-turn1881
end-product1923
pay-off1926
wash-up1961
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 30v The knowingz of which terminacionz [of cases of oedema] ar said aboue in þe sermon vniuersale.
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. iv. viii. f. cxxviii The fistula yt goeth to some of the rybbes, or spondilles, or to some ioyncte, is euer suspected of euil termination.
1648 H. Parker Of Free Trade sig. A2 I perceived your interest was the same as the Common interest of all Merchants, and that could have no termination, but in the common interest of our Nation.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 102 King Charles might with as much verity have pronounced (as to his content) of Parliaments, not any one he summoned, having had any termination other then disgustful to him.
1751 J. Hill Hist. Woman of Quality i. iii. 12 (heading) A strange Embarrassment of our Heroine, with a very happy Termination.
1796 F. Burney Camilla V. ix. i. 5 Her spirits now rose, and her prospects re-opened to their wished termination.
1807 V. Knox Serm. 24 A good commencement has ever been found..auspicious to a good progress and a happy termination.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. iii. 69 If they do not indeed drive her to suicide, which, I think, the most likely termination.
1884 Manch. Examiner 3 May 5/1 Dissensions which could hardly have other than a hostile termination.
1911 Med. World Aug. 330/2 I told her everything ought to go on to a happy termination.
1967 K. Bourne Brit. & Balance of Power N. Amer. viii. 251 Its [sc. the Trent crisis'] happy termination..brought no lasting relief.
2013 M. Illner et al. in J. Loughlin et al. Routledge Handbk. Regionalism & Federalism iii. xxxvii. 531 An important change in Czecho-Slovak relations occurred..shortly after the unhappy termination of the ‘Prague Spring’.
b. Cessation, close, conclusion, end (in time); an instance of this.
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the world > action or operation > completing > [noun] > a conclusion or end > point of completion
terminationc1500
period1554
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun]
endc1000
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conclusion1382
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finance1449
terminationc1500
last?1520
winding up1560
wind-up1573
wind-up-all1573
conclusure1578
clause1581
upshot1582
desinence1598
omega1599
Godspeed1606
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finish1790
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Z1877
curtains1912
taps1917
c1500 Melusine (1895) 156 Ermyne said she wold see first the termynacion of her faders syknes or she shuld procide ony ferther.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Tabula 148 The fyift cheptour declaris the opinions that the pagan philosophours held anent the terminatione of the varld.
1615 J. Yates Gods Arraignem. Hypocrites 191 It is the termination and winding vp of the matter.
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iv. 53 Christians have handsomely glossed the deformity of death, by..civil rites which take of brutall terminations.
1716 J. Perry State of Russia 235 According to the common Way of computing the Termination of the Year, the Seasons are considerably alter'd.
1799 J. McHenry Let. 3 Sept. in G. Washington Papers (1999) Retirement Ser. IV. 282 Exhibiting the names and rank of the field officers who were in service to the termination of the late war.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliii. 386 She abruptly put a termination to a flirtation which Lieutenant Stubble..had commenced.
1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks iv. i. 195 All human power has its termination sooner or later.
1905 A. M. Binstead Mop Fair 108 In about five minutes..there came the click which denotes the termination of a message.
1932 F. M. Babcock Valuation Real Estate xiv. 147 A perpetuity is a special case of an annuity and may be described as an annuity which extends into the future without termination.
2002 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 Aug. 51 The light closed in at Trent Bridge and brought a termination to play shortly after seven o'clock.
6. The ending of a word; a final syllable, letter, or group of letters; (Grammar) a final element affixed to a word or stem to express some relation or modification of sense; an inflectional or derivative ending, a suffix.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [noun] > affix > suffix
termisona1400
termination1495
paragoge1577
paragogic1593
desinence1598
terminative1649
suffix1778
subfix1795
postfix1805
ending1864
postbase1958
1495 Accedence (de Worde) sig. Biij Of the latter supine, by puttynge to this terminacion rus, as (lectu) put therto a rus, & it woll be (lecturus).
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 27 In these syxe termynations endeth no masculyne adjectyve syngular.
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xii. f. 50v The diuers fallinges and terminations of woords.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor Pref. Lar is but the Turkish termination plurall.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 165 Many times the Literati and Scholares coyn new Words, and sometimes..give Terminations and Idiotisms sutable to their Native Language, unto Words newly invented..out of other Languages.
1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata i. 192 Neither is it unreasonable to suppose that the Gaulish, or Celtish, or old British word au or aw, signifying Water, might some time have an additional Termination affix'd to it.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 177 [Mecca] was known to the Greeks under the name of Macoraba; and the termination of the word is expressive of its greatness.
a1831 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 108/1 The addition of an adverbial particle, like our prefix, a, or termination, ly.
1872 J. H. Gladstone in Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 25 8 I propose naming this oil citronellol, in accordance with the usual plan of adopting -ol as the termination of the names of bodies of this nature.
1929 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 50 40 (title) The semantics of the termination -ario-.
1971 Computers & Humanities 5 254 These..take into account the..termination of the syllable (open or closed).
2014 E. Karakasis in M. Fontaine & A. C. Scafuro Oxf. Handbk. Greek & Rom. Comedy xxviii. 563 This is also the case with the verbal termination -unt.
7. † b. In plural. Leggings, breeches. Obsolete. rare.
a. The place or part where something terminates; a limit, a boundary; an end, an extremity; (also) the form which an end or extremity takes.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > utmost or extreme boundary
finea1400
outgoinga1425
outboundsc1540
verge1597
termination1603
outmost1634
out-limit1650
out-border1652
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1340 Limiting the void infinity, which hath no proportion nor termination [Fr. qui n'a..aucune terminaison, Gk. ἀόριστον].
1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations 523 The After-birth is..a soft flesh, lax, porous, thick..growing about the terminations of the Vmbilical vessels.
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 166 I observ'd a Termination of a Seam, as they call it in the North, or a Stratum of Coal, where it divided into several thin Plates.
1754 W. Borlase Observ. Antiq. Cornwall iii. vii. 187 At the Southern Termination [of the enclosure]..stand four rude Pillars about eight feet high.
1830 H. Booth Acct. Liverpool & Manch. Railway 42 To improve the termination of the line at the Liverpool end.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvii. 120 Ramsay and myself crossed the mountains obliquely, desiring to trace the glacier to its termination.
1892 H. A. A. Nicholls Text-bk. Trop. Agric. ii. xiv. 266 The [rice] seed is borne at the termination of the stem, and it is protected by a rough yellow husk.
1943 R. Webster Pract. Gemmol. ix. 89 The opposite ends of the crystal have different terminations.
2011 R. Fortey Survivors i. 4 The tail..has a triangular cross section, and it makes a stoutly elegant termination to the animal.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches
breecha1100
breeka1300
femoralc1450
hosec1460
breecha1500
overstocks1543
strossers1598
strouses1600
breeching1604
brogues1615
trousies1652
small clothes1770
knee-breeches1829
smalls1836
breekums1839
culotte1842
sine qua nons1850
terminations1863
trouserettes1875
strides1889
knee-breech1904
1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. I. 32 The men are in shirts, and long terminations, or femoralia.
8. In plural. Way of speaking, language; words, expressions. Cf. term n. 12. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > term or expression
wordeOE
terma1398
conveyance1586
epithet1600
terminations1600
notion1655
description1826
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 233 She speakes poynyards, and euery word stabbes: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no liuing neere her. View more context for this quotation
1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 146 The first part of it, whose responsory terminations are ‘Have Mercy upon us’.
Compounds
termination codon n. Molecular Biology a codon in messenger RNA that acts as a signal for the termination of translation; also called stop codon.
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1966 Jrnl. Sci. & Industr. Res. 25 227/2 Poly UAI is more effective since it contains another termination codon.
1983 B. Lewin Genes ix. 70/2 When the mutation creates one of the three termination codons, however, it causes premature termination of protein synthesis.
2004 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 15676/1 Approximately 14% of genetic mutations in patients with ataxia-telangiectasia are single-nucleotide changes that result in primary premature termination codons.
termination payment n. a lump sum payment made to an employee upon the termination of his or her contract.
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1951 Decisions Comptroller Gen. U.S. 30 399 The termination payment determined to be due and payable under said contract.
1983 M. Edwardes Back from Brink iv. 56 Most of these people were dismissed, and were paid termination payments.
2015 Irish Times 20 July 8 Termination payments operate in the same manner as redundancy payments to provide a ‘financial cushion’.
termination shock n. chiefly Astronomy a shock wave occurring at the point at which a flow is slowed to subsonic speeds; spec. (in the solar system) the roughly spherical standing shock wave formed far beyond the orbit of Pluto where the solar wind encounters the interstellar medium and is slowed to subsonic speeds; the region of space occupied by this; cf. heliosheath n.The termination shock in the solar system is thought to be located typically around 90 astronomical units from the sun.
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1975 Israel Jrnl. Technol. 13 157/1 It is difficult to gain more than a rough idea of the physical flowfield, the extent of the supersonic region and the severity of the termination shock.
1981 Papers 17th Internat. Cosmic Ray Conf. III. 463 A model of the anomalous cosmic ray component in which ex-interstellar ions are preferentially accelerated in the polar regions of the solar wind termination shock and then drift into the inner heliosphere.
2011 T. Koupelis In Quest of Solar Syst. vii. 182/2 Voyager 1 has already passed the termination shock; this is the region where the solar wind meets the interstellar gas, thus quickly slowing down, becoming denser and hotter.
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