Terminate may refer to: *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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

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