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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne