TERMINATOR

exterminator, terminator, eradicator

(noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

terminator (plural terminators)

Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator. [from 17th c.]

(astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body. [from 17th c.]

(biochemistry) A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off. [from 20th c.]

(electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.

(science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans (after the 1984 film The Terminator).

Synonyms

• (astronomy): grey line, separatrix (the general term for such lines)

Anagrams

• antitremor

Source: Wiktionary


Ter"mi*na`tor, n. Etym: [L., he who limits or sets bounds.]

1. One who, or that which, terminates.

2. (Astron.)

Definition: The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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