Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun termination
5 senses of termination
Sense 1
termination, expiration, expiry -- (a coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his driver's license")
=> end, ending -- (the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period")
Sense 2
end point, endpoint, termination, terminus -- (a place where something ends or is complete)
=> end, terminal -- (either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix")
Sense 3
result, resultant, final result, outcome, termination -- (something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio")
=> ending, conclusion, finish -- (event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show")
Sense 4
ending, termination -- (the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending")
=> morpheme -- (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)
Sense 5
termination, ending, conclusion -- (the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement")
=> change of state -- (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)