Terminate may refer to:
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Electrical termination
In electronics, electrical termination is the practice of ending a transmission line with a device that matches the characteristic impedance of the line. Termination prevents signals from Signal reflection, reflecting off the end of the transmi ...
, ending a wire or cable properly to prevent interference
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Termination of employment
Termination of employment or separation of employment is an employee's departure from a job and the end of an employee's duration with an employer. Termination may be voluntary on the employee's part ( resignation), or it may be at the hands of t ...
, the end of an employee's duration with an employer
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Terminate with extreme prejudice
Project GAMMA was the name given in 1968 to Detachment B-57, Company E (Special Operations), 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (5th SFG(A)) in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970. It was responsible for covert intelligence collection operations in Ca ...
, a euphemism for assassination
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terminate-and-stay-resident program
A terminate-and-stay-resident program (commonly TSR) is a computer program running under DOS that uses a system call to return control to DOS as though it has finished, but remains in computer memory so it can be reactivated later. This techni ...
, utility programs used in DOS
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exit (system call)
On many computer operating systems, a computer process terminates its execution by making an exit system call. More generally, an exit in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution has stopped running. For resource man ...
, to terminate the execution of a running software program
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Terminate (software)
Terminate (terminat.exe) was a shareware modem terminal and host program for MS-DOS and compatible operating systems, developed during the 1990s by Bo Bendtsen from Denmark.
The latest release (5.00) arrived in 1997, and the first release ar ...
- (terminat.exe), a shareware modem terminal and host program for MS-DOS in the 1990s
See also
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Terminator (disambiguation)
Terminator may refer to:
Science and technology
Genetics
* Terminator (genetics), the end of a gene for transcription
* Terminator technology, proposed methods for restricting the use of genetically modified plants by causing second generation ...
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Terminus (disambiguation)
Terminus may refer to:
Ancient Rome
* Terminus (god), a Roman deity who protected boundary markers
Transport
* Terminal train station or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination
* Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end ...
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Termination (disambiguation)
Termination may refer to:
Science
* Termination (geomorphology), the period of time of relatively rapid change from cold, glacial conditions to warm interglacial condition
* Termination factor, in genetics, part of the process of transcribing R ...
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Terminal (disambiguation)
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