terminator
/ˈtəː.mɪ.neɪ.tə/ · noun
Meaning
- Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.
- The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.
- A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
- An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
- An intelligent android created to destroy humans (after the 1984 film The Terminator).
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