terminate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To bring to an end or halt: "His action terminated the most hopeful period of reform in Prussian history” ( Gordon A. Craig).
2. v. To occur at or form the end of; conclude or finish: a display of fireworks that terminated the festivities.
3. v. To discontinue the employment of; dismiss: a company that terminated 300 workers.
4. v. To come to an end: The oil pipeline terminates at a shipping port. Negotiations terminated yesterday. See Synonyms at complete.
5. v. To have as an end or result: "The Peloponnesian war ... terminated in the ruin of the Athenian commonwealth” ( Alexander Hamilton).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To bound; limit; form the extreme outline of; set a boundary or limit to; define.
2. To end; put an end to.
3. To complete; put the closing or finishing touch to; perfect.
4. Synonyms To close, conclude.
5. To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; stop short; end.
6. To cease; come to an end in time; end.
7. Capable of coming to an end; limited; bounded: as, a terminate decimal. A terminate number is an integer, a mixed number, or a vulgar fraction. See interminate.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive or intransitive, formal To finish or end.
2. v. transitive, euphemistic To kill.
3. v. transitive, euphemistic To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire or lay off.
4. adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
5. adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
6. adj. mathematics Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit.
2. v. To put an end to; to make to cease.
3. v. Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to perfect.
4. v. To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease.
5. v. To come to a limit in time; to end; to close.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
2. v. be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
3. v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
4. v. bring to an end or halt