termination
pronunciation
How to pronounce termination in British English:
UK [ˌtɜ:mɪˈneɪʃn]
How to pronounce termination in American English:
US [ˌtɜrmɪˈneɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- a coming to an end of a contract period
- a place where something ends or is complete
- something that results
- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- the act of ending something
Word Origin
- termination (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. Termination of a previous pregnancy , for any reason , also increased the risk of premature birth in a subsequent pregnancy .
- 2. Process destruction can be driven by several events-from normal process termination , through a signal , or through a call to the exit function .
- 3. Success ( n. ) the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors
- 4. Jajah 's service includes the application itself , in addition to a suite of management services , from termination of the calls and quality control through billing and processing payments in 200 countries around the world .
- 5. Until now , their advice has been that while rates of psychiatric illness and self-harm in women are higher among those who had an abortion , there was no evidence that termination itself was likely to trigger psychological problems .