noun🔗ShareSomeone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator."The company hired a terminator to get rid of all the old computer systems. "personjobactionmilitaryweapontechnologymachineinhumanscienceentertainmentmediaChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body."Looking through my telescope, I could clearly see the terminator, the line separating the sunlit and shadowed portions of the Moon. "astronomyspaceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off."In the DNA "recipe," the terminator signals the end of the instructions for making a protein. "biologybiochemistryorganismscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line."To prevent signal echoes and ensure clear data transmission, the engineer installed a terminator at the end of the network cable. "electronicsdevicetechnologycommunicationsignalelectricChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn intelligent android created to destroy humans (after the 1984 film The Terminator)."The movie featured a relentless terminator sent from the future to kill the protagonist. "culturemediaentertainmentstorytechnologymachineweaponinhumanChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
