Word Meanings - TERMINATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, terminates.

Related words: (words related to TERMINATOR)

• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• DIVIDUOUS
  Divided; dividual. He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.
• ILLUMINATE
  in + luminare to enlighten, fr. lumen light. See Luminous, and cf. 1. To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten. 2. To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DIVIDEDLY
  Separately; in a divided manner.
• DIVIDINGLY
  By division.
• DIVIDED
  Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf. (more info) 1. Parted; disunited; distributed.
• DIVIDUALLY
  By dividing.
• DIVIDUAL
  Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. Milton.
• ILLUMINATI
  Literally, those who are enlightened; -- variously applied as follows: -
• DIVIDANT
  Different; distinct. Shak.
• ILLUMINATOR
  1. One whose occupation is to adorn books, especially manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3. 2. A condenser or reflector of light in optical apparatus; also, an illuminant.
• ILLUMINATING
  Giving or producing light; used for illumination. Illuminating gas. See Gas, n., 2 .
• DIVIDE
  1. To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder. Milton. The Indo-Germanic family divides into three groups. J. Peile. 2. To cause separation; to disunite. A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• ILLUMINATISM
  Illuminism.
• DIVIDING
  That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars ; also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. . See under Sinker.
• ILLUMINATION
  The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration. Hymns and psalms . . . are framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are inspired. Hooker. (more info) 1. The act of illuminating, or supplying
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• INDIVIDUALIZER
  One who individualizes.
• SUBDIVIDE
  To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.
• REDIVIDE
  To divide anew.
• UNDIVIDUAL
  Indivisible. True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller.
• MISDIVIDE
  To divide wrongly.
• INDIVIDUATE
  Undivided.
• INDIVIDUATOR
  One who, or that which, individuates. Sir K. Digby.
• INDIVIDABLE
  Indivisible. Shak.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.