1. (n.) The act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.
2. (n.) That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a line.
3. (n.) End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness.
4. (n.) End; conclusion; result.
5. (n.) Last purpose of design.
6. (n.) A word; a term.
7. (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.
Thesaurus Entries
Z, abandonment, abortion, apodosis, bitter end, breakoff, catastrophe, cease, ceasing, cessation, climax, close, closing, coda, completing, completion, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, desinence, desistance, destination, destiny, discontinuance, discontinuation, doom, effect, end, end point, end result, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final result, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, finishing, full development, goal, issue, izzard, last, last act, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, maturation, maturity, omega, outcome, payoff, perfection, period, peroration, quietus, relinquishment, renunciation, resolution, resting place, result, ripeness, rounding off, rounding out, shutdown, stop, stoppage, stopping, stopping place, suffix, surcease, swan song, term, terminal, terminus, topping off, windup
