terminator

Meanings

Plural: terminators

Noun

• someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
• Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.
• A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
• The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.
• A DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
• An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
• An intelligent android created to destroy humans.

Synonyms

eradicator, exterminator, grey line, separatrix, twilight zone