termination

Noun

1. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
   • At all terminal stations, where running speeds are low, fixed termination simple catenary equipment has been installed. - 1959 June 5, “Clacton and Walton Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 379:

   Synonyms: discontinuation stoppage

   Antonyms: continuation

2. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.

   Synonyms: discharge dismissal

3. An end in time; a conclusion.

   Synonyms: close conclusion end finale finish stop

4. An end in space; an edge or limit.

   Synonyms: border edge end limit lip rim tip

5. An outcome or result.
   • Long indeed did that morning appear to Francesca—the longer as her anxiety was unexpressed; for it certainly does shorten a period of waiting not a little to spend it in talking over its various probabilities of...

   Synonyms: consequence outcome result upshot

6. The last part of a word.
   • 1. Some adjectives of the third declension have three terminations in the nominative singular,—one for each gender; some two,—one for the masculine and feminine, the other for the neuter; and some, only one for all...
   • Women's names were formed in the same way as men's, but with feminine terminations […] - 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire:...

   Synonyms: ending desinence

7. An induced abortion.

   Synonyms: abortion induced abortion

8. A word, a term.
   • She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. - 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare,...
   • 1808, Humphry Davy, The Bakerian Lecture, on some new Phenomena of chemical Changes produced by Electricity, particularly the Decomposition of the fixed Alkalis, and on the Exhibition of the new substances which...
9. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.