Associations to the word «Terminator»

Wiktionary

TERMINATOR, noun. One who finishes.
TERMINATOR, noun. (biochemistry) A DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
TERMINATOR, noun. (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
TERMINATOR, noun. (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a planet.
TERMINATOR, noun. (science fiction) An artificial intelligence machine, created to destroy humans (after the 1984 film The Terminator).

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery