terminate

1 bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WWI" [syn: end] [ant: begin, get down]

2 have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: end, stop, finish, cease] [ant: begin]

3 be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie" [syn: end]

4 terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack] [ant: hire]

English

Verb

1. transitive formal To finish or end.
2. transitive euphemism To kill.
3. transitive euphemism To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire or lay off.

Related terms

• termination
• terminator
• terminus

Translations

See also

• abort

Italian

Verb

terminate

1. second-person plural present tense of terminare
2. second-person plural present subjunctive of terminare
3. second-person plural imperative of terminare
4. feminine plural past participle of terminare

Terminate (terminat.exe) was a shareware modem terminal and host program for MS-DOS and compatible operating systems developed from the early to the late 1990s by the Dane Bo Bendtsen. The last release (5.00) was made in 1997; no details are still available for the first, but the T-Cfg program which performed config upgrades from 1.0 to 1.1 is dated 1994, so it seems reasonable to assume 1.0 was not that much earlier.

Compared to similar programs of its time, Terminate had a large number of built-in features like: a powerful phone book with long distance calling cost calculation, Fido Mailer, QWK offline mail reader, file manager, text editor, keyboard mapping, ISDN support http://www.blkbox.com/~bgfax/echo/MSG-1286.HTM, fax and voice-call features, chat, IEMSI, VGA mode detection, audio CD player, and a REXX-like scripting language.

Supported terminal emulation modes included ASCII, Avatar, ANSI, RIP, VT102, and others. A number of file transfer protocols like Zmodem were built into the application, along with support for external protocols like HSLink and BiModem.

The installation program could import the phone book and settings from other applications like: Telix, RemoteAccess, Frontdoor, BinkleyTerm, Portal of Power, as well as (indirectly) Minicom and Commo.

External links

• Official Web-site (portions no longer available)
• Terminate - the final terminal - a June 1995 article from the PC Update Magazine

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