termination

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
2. (countable, uncountable) The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
3. (countable, uncountable) An end in time; a conclusion.
4. (countable, uncountable) An end in space; an edge or limit.
5. (countable, uncountable) An outcome or result.
6. (countable, uncountable) The last part of a word.
7. (countable, uncountable) An induced abortion.
8. (countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable) A word, a term.
9. (countable, uncountable) The ending up of a polypeptid chain.

Opposite of

continuation

Synonyms

end

🔚

conclusion

close

ending

finish

completion

expiration

stop

🛑

cessation

end point

expiry

result

terminus

final result

extremity

finishing

resultant

destination

outcome

doom

closure

destruction

trailing end

fall due

finale

suffix

terminal

dying

liquidation

expire

conclude

halt

issue

endpoint

lapse

passing

cloture

beat

dissolution

discontinuance

closing

gone

forfeiture

apex

abolition

finis

denouement

finality

demise

final

Translations

fin

🔚

terminación

terminaison

🔚

fine

final

conclusão

conclusión

τέλος

fin

🔚

fim

🔚

ultimazione

λήξη

Kündigung

κατάληξη

Ende

🔚

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɚmɪˈneɪʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terminationem (accusative of terminatio).