Terminate may refer to:

• Electrical termination, ending a wire or cable properly to prevent interference
• Termination of employment, the end of an employee's duration with an employer
• Terminate with extreme prejudice, a euphemism for assassination
• terminate-and-stay-resident program, utility programs used in DOS
• exit (system call), to terminate the execution of a running software program
• Terminate (software) - (terminat.exe), a shareware modem terminal and host program for MS-DOS in the 1990s

• Terminator (disambiguation)
• Terminus (disambiguation)
• Termination (disambiguation)
• Terminal (disambiguation)