Crossword clues for termination
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Termination \Ter`mi*na"tion\, n. [L. terminatio a bounding, fixing, determining: cf. F. terminasion, OF. also termination. See Term.]
The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.
That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a line.
End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness.
End; conclusion; result.
--Hallam.Last purpose of design. [R.]
A word; a term. [R. & Obs.]
--Shak.(Gram.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "authoritative resolution of a matter," from Old French terminacion (13c.) and directly from Latin terminationem (nominative terminatio) "a fixing of boundaries, a bounding, determining," noun of action from past participle stem of terminare "to limit, end" (see terminus). Meaning "end of a person's employment" is recorded from 1961; meaning "artificial end of a pregnancy" is attested from 1969; sense of "assasination" is recorded from 1975.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of terminating or the state of being terminated. 2 The process of fire an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason. 3 An end in time; a conclusion. 4 An end in space; an edge or limit. 5 An outcome or result. 6 The last part of a word; a suffix. 7 (context medical English) An induced abortion. 8 (context obsolete rare English) A word, a term. 9 The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
WordNet
n. a coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his driver's license" [syn: expiration, expiry]
a place where something ends or is complete [syn: end point, endpoint, terminus]
something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio" [syn: result, resultant, final result, outcome]
the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" [syn: ending]
the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement" [syn: ending, conclusion]
Wikipedia
Termination may refer to:
is the full-length debut album of the Japanese rock band 9mm Parabellum Bullet. The songs "Heat-Island" and "The World" were re-recorded from their limited-release mini album, The World e.p..
Termination, as used by Quaternary geologists, oceanographers, and paleoclimatologists is the period of time during an glacial cycle when there is a relatively rapid transition from full glacial climates to full interglacial climates. For the Quaternary period, terminations are numbered using Roman numerals from the most recent termination as “I” and with increasing value, e.g. “II”, “III”, and so forth, into the past. Termination I, also,known as the Last Glacial Termination, is the end of Marine isotope stage 2; Termination II is the end of Marine Isotope Stage 6; Termination III is the end of Marine Isotope Stage 8; Termination III is the end of Marine Isotope Stage 10, and so forth.
During the Quaternary, global climate experienced a recurring pattern of ice-sheet growth and decay. The length of Late Quaternary cycles varied between 80,000 and 120,000 years, with an average recurrence interval of about 100,000 years. The typical Late Quaternary glacial cycle was asymmetric having a long cooling interval that was characterized by an oscillating buildup of ice sheets to maximum volume. The long cooling interval was then followed by a relatively short warming period. During this warming period, called a termination, huge Northern hemisphere ice sheets melted away; sea level rose about ; and interglacial climate emerged across the planet in a few thousand years. In case of the termination of the last glacial cycle, the retreat of continental ice sheets in the Northern hemisphere began about 20,000 calendar years ago. By about 7,000 calemdar years ago, a small ice cap on Baffin Island was all that was left of the great Laurentide Ice Sheet that had once covered northern North America. In Antarctica, the last termination began about 18,000 years ago and interglacial climate was attained close to 11,000 years ago.
Usage examples of "termination".
Sometimes there is associated with these anomalies curious terminations of the salivary ducts, either through the cheek by means of a fistula or on the anterior part of the neck.
In one sense, all national poetry is original, even though it be shackled by rules of traditional prosody, and has adopted the system of rhyme devised by writers in another language, whose words seem naturally to bourgeon into assonant terminations.
The eventual result is general paralysis, necrosis of the limb extremities, and termination.
Any distress at the termination of my intrigue with Betty was amply compensated for by my joy at the happy ending of a troublesome affair which might have proved fatal for me.
The other articles regulated the forms and times fixed for this mutual restitution, as well as for the termination of hostilities in different parts of the world.
That no private property shall be damaged or taken for any purpose under this section without just compensation, and that such authority to take and occupy land shall not authorize the taking, use, or occupation of any land except such as is required for the actual necessary purposes for which the franchise is granted, and that no franchise or right shall be granted to any individual, firm, or corporation except under the conditions that it shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal by the Congress of the United States, and that lands or right of use and occupation of lands thus granted shall revert to the governments by which they were respectively granted upon the termination of the franchises and rights under which they were granted or upon their revocation or repeal.
She was looking forward to the day with that mixture of eagerness and withholding which we have as we draw nigh the disenchanting termination of an enchanting romance, when Sir Willoughby met her on a Sunday morning, as she crossed his park solitarily to church.
The intrusion of tintinnabulating terminations into the conversational intercourse of men and angels would have spoiled Paradise itself.
After termination of the Mont Tremblant talks, Thorneycroft was joined by Sir David Eccles for the formal presentation of the free trade offer to Canadian ministers.
Three unexcused or unexplained absences will be grounds for immediate termination of your contract.
They are unweeping, even joyful, faces ecstatic, eyes shining, for these people know what later cultures will forget, that death is no termination but rather a natural continuation of life.
In 1806, Mercy Warren published her History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution in which she singled out Adams as one of those who had betrayed the Revolution.
The fierce struggle which for the better part of a year had been raging between the forces of the Dictator Balmaceda and those of the Opposition or Congressionalist Party, as they were more usually called, had at length reached such a pitch that it required but one more vigorous battle to find a termination.
Miss Dunstable was up, but that the great game of his whole life was being brought to an uncomfortable termination.
The Genoese understood the struggle, though he foresaw its termination, and he resumed the discourse himself, partly with the kind wish to give the maiden time to reflect maturely before she answered, and partly following a very natural train of his own thoughts.