📖 Definitions of "Terminating"
verb
- 1
To end, especially in an incomplete state.
"to terminate a surface by a line"
- 2
To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- 3
To kill.
- 4
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
adjective
- 1
Coming to an end.
- 2
Of a decimal: having a finite number of digits.
"Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal."
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Terminating"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| dismissverb | (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of. |
| ceaseverb | (formal, intransitive) To stop. |
| give the axeverb | (informal, idiomatic) To fire (dismiss from employment). |
| force outverb | To cause something to be ejected |
| stopverb | (intransitive) To cease moving. |
| endverb | (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end. |
| finishverb | (transitive) To complete (something). |
| send awayverb | (idiomatic, transitive) To dismiss from one's presence. |
| give noticeverb | (idiomatic) To announce one's intent to leave a job; to inform an employer that one is leaving. |
| canverb | (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to. |
| sackverb | To put in a sack or sacks. |
| fireverb | (transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire. |
| endingnoun | A termination or conclusion. |
| ceasingnoun | A cessation. |
| terminationnoun | The process of terminating or the state of being terminated. |
| concludingnoun | Finishing; closing; final. |
| cessationnoun | (formal) A ceasing or discontinuance, for example of an action, whether temporary or final. |
| withdrawingnoun | withdrawal |
| discontinuancenoun | The occurrence of something being discontinued; a cessation; an incomplete ending. |
| closingnoun | The act by which something is closed. |
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