Terminator

Quick meaning: Terminator is a noun meaning Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (computing) A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
2. (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.
3. (biochemistry) A DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
4. (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
5. (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans.

Example Sentences

Another view captured by Wiseman shows the Earth divided by night and day. That frontier between light and darkness is known as the terminator.

Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

Harriot, looking at the moon, saw the irregular terminator, the highlights and shadows, the mountain ranges and valleys that Galileo had described – and he also convinced himself that he saw Galileo's imaginary crater.

Word Forms

• terminators

Synonyms for terminator

Depending on context, synonyms include separatrix, eradicator, exterminator.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exterminator, eradicator, suicide, destructive, devastated, destroyed.

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