terminator

== English == === Etymology === Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate +‎ -or. (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɜː.mɪ.neɪ.tə/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.tɚ/, [ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.ɾɚ] (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.tə/, [ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.ɾə] Hyphenation: ter‧mi‧na‧tor Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ) === Noun === terminator (plural terminators) Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator. [from 17th c.] (computing) A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission. (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body. [from 17th c.] Synonym: twilight zone (biochemistry) A DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off. [from 20th c.] (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line. (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans. ==== Synonyms ==== (astronomy): grey line, separatrix (the general term for such lines) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === antitremor == Indonesian == === Etymology === Internationalism, ultimately from post-classical Latin terminātor possibly via English terminator === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /termiˈnator/ [t̪er.miˈna.t̪ɔr] Rhymes: -ator Syllabification: ter‧mi‧na‧tor === Noun === términator (plural terminator-terminator) terminator ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “terminator”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɛr.mɪˈnaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ter.miˈnaː.tor] === Etymology 1 === Late Latin, from terminō (“define, limit, end”) +‎ -tor, from terminus (“end, limit”). ==== Noun ==== terminātor m (genitive terminātōris); third declension he who sets bounds ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== terminātor second/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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “terminator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Polish == === Etymology === From termin +‎ -ator. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɛr.miˈna.tɔr/ Rhymes: -atɔr Syllabification: ter‧mi‧na‧tor === Noun === terminator m pers (female equivalent terminatorka) (obsolete) apprentice ==== Declension ==== === Noun === terminator m inan (astronomy) terminator (electronics) terminator ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === terminator in Polish dictionaries at PWN