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termination
has definitions from the field of linguistics
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[ noun ] a coming to an end of a contract period
Synonyms Examples "the expiry of his driver's license" Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)The embarrassment of these theories over the naturalness of death is an illustration of the thesis that death cannot be only a punishment , for some termination seems necessary in a life that is lived within the natural_order of time and change . On_the_other_hand , Christian faith knows that death is more than the natural termination of temporal existence . If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination , the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator . |
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[ noun ] something that results
Synonyms Examples "he listened for the results on the radio" Related terms ending consequence worst decision decision offspring denouement separation sequel poetic_justice deal leave |
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[ noun ] (linguistics) the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
Synonyms Examples "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the act of ending something
Synonyms Examples "the termination of the agreement" |
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