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terminating

adj
1
Coming to an end.
"The terminating flight will not continue on to its next scheduled stop."
2
In mathematics, describing a decimal with a finite number of digits.
"0.25 is a terminating decimal, while 0.333... is not."

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In plain EnglishEnding, or (in maths) a decimal that stops rather than repeating forever.

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terminating decimal
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