terminator
Day-night boundary line
A terminator is something or someone that ends, limits, or finishes something.
In astronomy, the terminator is the boundary line between the illuminated and dark portions of a celestial body like the moon: The terminator crept across the lunar surface as the sun set.
In genetics, a terminator is a DNA sequence that signals the end of transcription.
In electronics, a terminator is a resistor at the end of a transmission line that prevents signal reflection.
The word also serves as general slang for anything that definitively ends or destroys something: That last exam was a real terminator. (Capitalized Terminator refers to the film franchise.)
Written version of speech
- promoterOne who organizes events
- sequenceOrdered succession of elements
- mRNAGene's working copy
- gene expressionDNA to functional product
End or deduction
- finaleConcluding part of performance
- cessationA full stopping
- closureSense of emotional resolution
- completionAct of finishing
culmination · finality · halt · stoppage · shutdown · finish · end · last stop
Maximum allowed extent
- edgeBoundary or sharpness
- borderOuter edge or limit
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
endpoint · delimiter · partition · perimeter · interface · margin · barrier · cutoff
The moon's exterior terrain
- twilight zoneUnclear intermediate state
- illuminationProvision of light
Current-limiting circuit element
- transmission lineSignal-carrying conductor structure
- impedanceAC circuit opposition
- connectorThing that joins others
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Written version of speech
conclusion
End or deduction
completion · culmination · finality · halt · stoppage · shutdown · finish · end · last stop
limit
Maximum allowed extent
demarcation · endpoint · delimiter · partition · perimeter · interface · margin · barrier · cutoff · terminus
lunar surface
The moon's exterior terrain
- twilight zoneUnclear intermediate state
- illuminationProvision of light
resistor
Current-limiting circuit element
- transmission lineSignal-carrying conductor structure
- impedanceAC circuit opposition
- connectorThing that joins others
- DNA elementsgene, promoter, enhancer, silencer, exon
- spacespace, sun, moon, stars, star
- moonfull moon, lunar, crescent moon, new moon, half moon
- sci-fiscience fiction, Star Wars, sci-fi, Blade Runner 2049, aliens
- flowchartsflowchart, arrow, symbol, connector, start
- lunar featurescrater, mare, maria, rille, mons
terminatorinitiator
One who starts something
beginner · starter · inaugurator · originator · launcher
terminatorcreator
One who produces something
generator · maker · builder · establisher · life-giver
- termination noticeFormal dismissal document
- The TerminatorFuturistic mechanical assassin
- Terminator 2Action sequel about protective robot
- wrongful terminationIllegal firing from job
- early terminationEnding before intended completion
- job terminationEnding of work relationship
terminate, termination, exterminate, terminated, indeterminate, terminating, determinate, terminates, terminations