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Noun: termination  ,tur-mi'ney-shun
  1. A coming to an end of a contract period
    "the termination of his driver's licence";
    - expiration, expiry
     
  2. A place where something ends or is complete
    - end point, endpoint, terminus
     
  3. Something that happens or is produced as the final consequence or product
    - result, resultant, final result, outcome
     
  4. The end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
    "I don't like words that have -ism as a termination";
    - ending
     
  5. The act of ending something
    "the termination of the agreement";
    - ending, conclusion
     
  6. A deliberate termination of pregnancy
    - induced abortion, abortion

Derived forms: terminations

Type of: abortion, change of state, conclusion, end, ending, finish, morpheme, terminal

Encyclopedia: Termination