{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.termination","code":"thing-termination","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/termination/","name":"termination","alternateNames":["abort","demonetization","demonetisation","superannuation","ending","conclusion","relinquishment","relinquishing","cession","ceding","handover","dissolution"],"kind":"thing","status":"research-draft","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"noun.act","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.ACT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{"substance":"activity","origin":"conceptual","agency":"inert","mobility":"not-applicable","scale":"not-applicable","affordances":["observable"]}},"whatItIs":"In the WordNet sense, the act of ending something, bringing a process, contract, employment or state to a close; the registry aliases name particular kinds of ending from WordNet, such as abort, the premature ending of a process, demonetisation, ending a currency s status as legal tender, and superannuation, retirement on a pension, together with synonyms such as ending and conclusion.","purpose":"Let an agent explain termination as the act of ending, relay how it is used in law, employment, computing and finance from reference sources, describe the kinds the registry aliases name, and distinguish the act from the end as a point in time, from cancellation and from specific legal senses such as termination of pregnancy, without giving personal legal advice.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Act of ending","Many domains","Named kinds","Distinct from end point"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What termination means.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is termination as the act 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