Meaning

6 senses
  1. Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.

    терминаторterminator

  2. A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.

  3. The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.

    Nachtlinie

    терминаторterminator

    терміна́торterminátor

  4. A DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.

    терминаторterminator

    терміна́торterminátor

  5. An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.

    терминаторterminator

    терміна́торterminátor

  6. An intelligent android created to destroy humans.

    Terminator

    термина́торterminátor

More definitions
  • someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The Terminator saga also has a television series.

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  2. I like the Terminator films because the special effects are fantastic.

    ruМне нравятся фильмы про Терминатора, потому что спецэффекты там нереальные.

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  3. Ziri began walking towards his daughter and her boyfriend like a Terminator.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the line between the day side and the night side:
Русский
By meaning 2
one who terminates:
an AI machine in science fiction:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
the line between the day side and the night side:
an AI machine in science fiction:

Origin

* Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly fr

* Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate + -or.

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Forms

plural: terminators
Singularterminator
Pluralterminators

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects):exterminatoreradicator

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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