terminator Definition
ter·mi·na·tor (tʉr′mə nāt′ər)
noun
- a person or thing that terminates
- the line dividing the illuminated and dark parts of the disk of the moon or a planet
Etymology: LL(Ec)
terminator Usage Examples
Possessives
- seed: In this last week Monsanto has given in to pressure and agreed to take its ' terminator ' seeds off the market.
- technology: For example, gene flow might be avoided by making GM crops sterile, but ' terminator ' technology has gained an ethical stigma.
Converse of object
- use: Equally, you can use a terminator or marker to indicate the end of a string.
- have: Each has a different terminator used for my own purpose.
- play: You're winding me up man, how could Douglas play the Terminator?
- see: Once he recommended my husband to see Terminator, he was very surprised.
- meet: In 13th SAS, LNCS 4134, 2006 Space Invader meets Terminator... Mutant is Born.
Adjective modifier
null: In C a null terminator is added to the end of string literals.
Modifies a noun
- crop: Killing fields near you terminator crops at large.
- seed: What impact will Terminator seeds have on small-scale farmers?
- patent: My analysis was based on the details of only one of the applications described in the Terminator patent.
- gene: Terminator genes Most of the world's farmers save seed from their crop to sow in the following year.
- insect: For further details, see " Terminator Insects - the Killing of Females " .
- technology: Syngenta won its most recent US patent on Terminator technology in March 2004.
Noun used with modifier
- transcription: In contrast the United States Department of Agriculture usually identifies both the promoter and the transcription terminator.
- dye: The method of choice would be automated fluorescent dye terminator cycle sequencing.
- string: If N-1 characters are read and the N th character is not the string terminator, the failbit of the stream is set.
- no: Transcription was terminated using the nos terminator in every case.
- line: The line terminator specified is included in the line read or written.
- chain: Its main mode of action is as a chain terminator of viral reverse transcription.
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