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noun

Termination n.

The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a line.

End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness.

End; conclusion; result.

Last purpose of design. (R.)

A word; a term. (R. & Obs.)

(Gram.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Termination" Quotes from Famous Books

... language we shall find a certain principle of analogy running through the whole. We shall find in English that similar combinations of letters have usually the same pronunciation, and that words having the same terminating syllable generally have the accent at the same distance from that termination. These principles of analogy were not the result of design; they must have been the effect of accident, or that tendency which all men feel toward uniformity. But the principles, when established, are productive of great convenience, and become an authority superior to the arbitrary ...

— Noah Webster - American Men of Letters • Horace E. Scudder

... me, he flits about from any one date to any other during a couple of decades, in a manner so confusing that for the present I abandon such an attempt. All I know of the date of the episode I am about to chronicle is that it occurred immediately after the termination of his engagement at the academy just mentioned. Somehow, Aristide's history ...

— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke

... not only cannot be dispensed with, but is absolutely necessary; and, consequently, however desirable it may appear that we should have furnished to us that short path to certainty which a pretended infallibility* promises to man, or that equally short path which leads to the same termination, by telling us that we are to believe nothing which we cannot demonstrate to be true, or which, a priori, we may presume to be false, must be a path which leads astray. In the one case, how can the 'reasonable ...

— Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts • Henry Rogers

... two branches; it is twenty-two miles along the stem,—viz., from Preston in the middle to Lancaster at the root. There's a lesson in geography for the reader!] Within these first three stages lay the foundation, the progress, and termination of our night's adventure. During the first stage, I found out that Cyclops was mortal: he was liable to the shocking affection of sleep—a thing which previously I had never suspected. If a man indulges ...

— The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc • Thomas de Quincey

... the standard or regular termination of the feminine, -ess (French esse, Low Latin issa), the one most used. The corresponding masculine may have the ending -er (-or), but in most cases it has not. Whenever we adopt a new masculine word, the feminine is formed ...

— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell

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