Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word TERMINATION

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Definitions of TERMINATION

1. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
2. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
3. An end in time; a conclusion.
4. An end in space; an edge or limit.
5. An outcome or result.
6. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
7. (grammar) The last part of a word.
8. (medical) An induced abortion.
9. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.

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Examples of Using TERMINATION in a Sentence

• In the Netherlands and Belgium, euthanasia is understood as "termination of life by a doctor at the request of a patient".
• The termination of legally recognized family relationships and ancillary matters, including divorce, annulment, property settlements, alimony, child custody and visitation, child support and alimony awards.
• It declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel, which would come into effect on termination of the British Mandate at midnight that day.
• A specific implementation with termination criteria for a given iterative method like gradient descent, hill climbing, Newton's method, or quasi-Newton methods like BFGS, is an algorithm of an iterative method or a method of successive approximation.
• A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.
• Goal node (computer science), a node in a graph that meets defined criteria for success or termination.
• In molecular biology, a stop codon (or termination codon) is a codon (nucleotide triplet within messenger RNA) that signals the termination of the translation process of the current protein.
• Termination equipment that (a) is located on the customer premises and (b) performs a function that may be integrated into the common carrier equipment.
• The MDF is a termination point within the local telephone exchange where exchange equipment and terminations of local loops are connected by jumper wires at the MDF.
• This discontinuity can be caused by a mismatch between the termination or load connected to the line and the characteristic impedance of the line.
• In telecommunications, the service termination point is the last point of service rendered by a commercial carrier under applicable tariffs.
• The U interface or U reference point is a Basic Rate Interface (BRI) in the local loop of an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), connecting the network terminator (NT1/2) on the customer's premises to the line termination (LT) in the carrier's local exchange, in other words providing the connection from subscriber to central office.
• Pensions should not be confused with severance pay; the former is usually paid in regular amounts for life after retirement, while the latter is typically paid as a fixed amount after involuntary termination of employment before retirement.
• The name Land for Peace is derived from the wording of the resolution's first operative paragraph which affirms that peace should include the application of two principles: Withdrawal of Israeli forces (Giving Up Land), and Termination of all claims or states of belligerency (Making Peace).
• This name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Liliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN).
• After the abolition of serfdom in 19th century, Jurģi was developed in the Latvian culture on the day of termination of the contract.
• The southern border follows Doctor Shaw Road from its intersection with NY 155, then turns northeast onto Veeder Road until its termination with Johnston Road.
• Anthony Wayne's Legion was returning to Greenville via Loramie's trading post and Piqua at the termination of their Indian Country campaign in fall 1794, Wayne wrote a letter to Henry Knox dated October 17, 1794, in which he recommended that forts be built at those two locations as waystations along the Miami River.
• Somewhere in the 1900-1902 timeframe, the Choctaw Northern Railroad built through the area, its line running from Geary, Oklahoma to its termination at Anthony, Kansas.
• For the next 40 years, Asher would serve as the termination point for the branch and its engine, "Old Beck".

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