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terminator.

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

10 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtɜː.mɪ.neɪ.tə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.tɚ/Canada, General-American[ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.ɾɚ]Canada, General-American/ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.tə/Australia
  1. Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.

  2. A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.

  3. The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.

  4. A DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.

  5. An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.

  6. An intelligent android created to destroy humans.

Where this word comes from

* Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate + -or. * (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.

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