Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

terminator

/ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.tɚ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables: ter-mi-na-tor
IPA: /ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.tɚ/

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.

noun

A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.

noun

The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.

noun

A DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.

noun

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

noun

An intelligent android created to destroy humans.

Example Sentences

"Harriot, looking at the moon, saw the irregular terminator, the highlights and shadows, the mountain ranges and valleys that Galileo had described – and he also convinced himself that he saw Galileo's imaginary crater."
"Another view captured by Wiseman shows the Earth divided by night and day. That frontier between light and darkness is known as the terminator."
"Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural."

Etymology

* Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate + -or. * (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.tɚ/
British English: /ˈtɜː.mɪ.neɪ.tə/

Inflected Forms

terminators (plural)

Derived Forms

antiterminator Bushinator Governator sperminator Terminatoresque

Phrases

terminator pig

Synonyms

twilight zone grey line separatrix exterminator eradicator

Rhymes With

exterminator later greater creator narrator traitor translator dictator waiter cater crater curator

Questions

How do you pronounce terminator?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.tɚ/.
What does terminator mean?: Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.
Where does terminator come from?: * Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate + -or. * (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.

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