terminator

抹殺者、終わらせる者

特に殺したり破壊したりして、何かを終わらせる人や物。

やさしい英語で： A person or thing that ends something, especially by killing or destroying.

• They hired a terminator to kill the leader.
• The story’s terminator destroys everything in its path.
• A ruthless terminator was sent after the escaped prisoners.

類義語： killer, exterminator

よく使う表現： a ruthless terminator, a hired terminator

終端文字、終端記号

文章やメッセージの終わりを示す文字や文字列。

やさしい英語で： A character or group of characters that marks the end of text or a message.

• The parser checks for a terminator.
• A missing string terminator caused the program to fail.
• Each message ends with the same terminator.

類義語： end marker

よく使う表現： string terminator, null terminator, message terminator

明暗境界線

惑星や衛星の、明るい側と暗い側を分ける線。

やさしい英語で： The line separating the bright and dark sides of a planet or moon.

• The terminator crosses the moon’s surface.
• Craters near the terminator cast long shadows.
• Through the telescope, we watched the lunar terminator shift.

類義語： day-night boundary

よく使う表現： lunar terminator, the moon’s terminator, near the terminator

ターミネーター、転写終結配列

RNAを作る過程の終了を指示するDNAの一部分。

やさしい英語で： A stretch of DNA that signals the end of the process of making RNA.

• The gene has a terminator.
• This terminator signals the end of transcription.
• Researchers changed the terminator sequence in the bacterial DNA.

よく使う表現： transcription terminator, terminator sequence, a bacterial terminator