👉 In computer science, a terminating state is one of several states that can be reached from an initial state in a finite automaton. A state is considered to be a terminal state if it does not have any other reachable states. For instance, in a Turing machine (also known as a universal Turing machine), the state 'start' is always a terminal state because it has no other reachable states. In contrast, a state like 'halt' or 'stop', which cannot be reached from the start