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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TERMINA'TION, n. The act of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding.
1. Bound; limit in space or extent; as the termination of a line.
2. End in time or existence; as the termination of the year or of life; the termination of happiness.
3. In grammar, the end or ending of a word; the syllable or letter that ends a word. Words have different terminations to express number, time and sex.
4. End; conclusion; result.
5. Last purpose.
6. Word; term. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his driver's license" [syn: termination, expiration, expiry]
2: a place where something ends or is complete [syn: end point, endpoint, termination, terminus]
3: something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio" [syn: result, resultant, final result, outcome, termination]
4: the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" [syn: ending, termination]
5: the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement" [syn: termination, ending, conclusion]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1500 1. end in time or existence ; conclusion <the termination of life> 2. the last part of a word; especially an inflectional ending 3. the act of terminating 4. a limit in space or extent ; bound 5. outcome, result • terminational adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the act or an instance of terminating; the state of being terminated. 2 Med. an induced abortion. 3 an ending or result of a specified kind (a happy termination). 4 a word's final syllable or letters or letter esp. as an element in inflection or derivation. Phrases and idioms: put a termination to (or bring to a termination) make an end of. Derivatives: terminational adj. Etymology: ME f. OF termination or L terminatio (as TERMINATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Termination Ter`mi*na"tion, n. [L. terminatio a bounding, fixing, determining: cf. F. terminasion, OF. also termination. See Term.] 1. The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. 2. That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a line. 3. End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness. 4. End; conclusion; result. --Hallam. 5. Last purpose of design. [R.] 6. A word; a term. [R. & Obs.] --Shak. 7. (Gram.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see terminate

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Ending. 2. Limit, bound, extent. 3. End, conclusion. 4. End, conclusion, completion, issue, result, consequence, effect.

Moby Thesaurus

Z, abandonment, abortion, apodosis, bitter end, breakoff, catastrophe, cease, ceasing, cessation, climax, close, closing, coda, completing, completion, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, desinence, desistance, destination, destiny, discontinuance, discontinuation, doom, effect, end, end point, end result, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final result, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, finishing, full development, goal, issue, izzard, last, last act, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, maturation, maturity, omega, outcome, payoff, perfection, period, peroration, quietus, relinquishment, renunciation, resolution, resting place, result, ripeness, rounding off, rounding out, shutdown, stop, stoppage, stopping, stopping place, suffix, surcease, swan song, term, terminal, terminus, topping off, windup