Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) The act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

2. (n.) That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a line.

3. (n.) End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness.

4. (n.) End; conclusion; result.

5. (n.) Last purpose of design.

6. (n.) A word; a term.

7. (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.