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語源

• Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate +‎ -or.
• (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɜː.mɪ.neɪ.tə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.tɚ/, [ˈtɝ.mɪˌneɪ.ɾɚ]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.tə/, [ˈtɜː.mɪ.næɪ.ɾə]
• ハイフネーション: ter‧mi‧na‧tor
• 韻: -eɪtə(ɹ)

名詞

terminator (plural terminators)

1. Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator. [from 17th c.]
2. (computing) A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
3. (astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: twilight zone, grey line, (general term) separatrix

   • 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 218:

     Harriot, looking at the moon, saw the irregular terminator, the highlights and shadows, the mountain ranges and valleys that Galileo had described – and he also convinced himself that he saw Galileo's imaginary crater.

   • 2026 April 3, Sofia Ferreira Santos, “Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth”, in BBC‎:

     Another view captured by Wiseman shows the Earth divided by night and day. That frontier between light and darkness is known as the terminator.

4. (biochemistry) A DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off. [from 20th c.]
5. (electronics) An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
6. (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans.
   • 2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:

     Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

派生語

アナグラム

• antitremor

語源 1

Late Latin, from terminō (“define, limit, end”) +‎ -tor, from terminus (“end, limit”).

名詞

terminātor m (genitive terminātōris); third declension

1. he who sets bounds

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

terminātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of terminō

参照

• “terminator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "terminator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “terminator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.