Meaning

• To end, especially in an incomplete state.

  "to terminate a surface by a line"

• To set or be a limit or boundary to.

• To kill.

• To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.

• Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or of a railway line, to reach its terminus.

Meaning

• Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.

• Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.

  "Mountains on the Moon cast shadows that are very dark, terminate and more distinct than those cast by mountains on the Earth."

• Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

  "One third is a recurring decimal, but one half is a terminate decimal."