terminated

adj 1: having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting

was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished";

"the abruptly terminated interview" [syn: {complete},

{concluded}, {ended}, {over(p)}, {all over}]

2: (of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end

terminator

A resistor connected to a signal wire in a {bus}

or {network} for the purpose of impedance matching to prevent

reflections.

For example, a 50 ohm resistor connected across the end of an

{Ethernet} cable. {SCSI} chains and some {LocalTalk} wiring

schemes also require terminators.

(1995-05-17)