English-Spanish translations for terminate

• terminar
• acabar
• acabarse

Definition of terminate

• To end, especially in an incomplete state
• To set or be a limit or boundary to
• To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off
• Terminated; limited; bounded; ended
• Expressible in a finite number of terms; not recurring or infinite

Examples

• to terminate a surface by a line
• to terminate an effort, or a controversy
• Mountains on the Moon cast shadows that are very dark, terminate and more distinct than those cast by mountains on the Earth
• One third is a recurring decimal, but one half is a terminate decimal

Related words

• exterminate
• determinate
• indeterminate
• indeterminateness
• kesken tuloksettomana) terminate