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Webster 1913 Edition
Terminator
Ter′mi-naˊtor
,Noun.
[L., he who limits or sets bounds.]
1.
One who, or that which, terminates.
2.
(Astron.)
The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Terminator
TERM'INATOR
,Noun.
Definition 2024
terminator
terminator
English
Noun
terminator (plural terminators)
- One who finishes.
- (biochemistry) A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
- (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
- (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a planet.
- (science fiction) An artificial intelligence machine, created to destroy humans (after the 1984 film The Terminator).
Synonyms
- (astronomy): grey line, separatrix (the general term for such lines)
Translations
one who finishes
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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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Latin
Verb
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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “terminator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
Polish
Noun
terminator m pers
- (obsolete) apprentice
Declension
declension of terminator
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | terminator | terminatorzy |
| genitive | terminatora | terminatorów |
| dative | terminatorowi | terminatorom |
| accusative | terminator | terminatorów |
| instrumental | terminatorem | terminatorami |
| locative | terminatorze | terminatorach |
| vocative | terminatorze | terminatorzy |