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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in 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 ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in 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 ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in 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 ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE wrongful ▪ In 1994, a jury awarded him more than half a million dollars for wrongful termination from the utility in 1990. ■ NOUN date ▪ If payment of your salary continues until the date of final rejection, that ...

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.