termination

US/tɚmɪˈneɪʃən/

nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,389 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: terminations

Termination is the ending of a contract or a process. Termination of employment, immediate termination, a termination clause.

It is the formal word used in contracts and letters, which is why it sounds cold: termination of employment is what a letter says instead of you are dismissed. In medicine, termination is the standard clinical word for an abortion.

Definitions of termination

1nounterminationThe ending of a contract or a process.B2+
“Either side can ask for termination of the contract with a month's notice.”

termination is an ending.

Where it comes from

Latin terminatio comes from terminare, to limit, from terminus, a boundary.

Latin
terminationem
English, today
termination

Borrowed from Latin terminationem (accusative of terminatio).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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termination in the wild

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.
Abortion
While start codons need nearby sequences or initiation factors to start translation, a stop codon alone is sufficient to initiate termination.
Stop codon
Late termination of pregnancy is more controversial than abortion in general.
Late termination of pregnancy
Other termination factors discovered in E. coli include Tau/Ter/Tus and nusA.
Rho factor
Indian termination describes United States policies relating to Native Americans from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s.
Indian termination policy

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