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terminal

The terminal command for force-quitting an unresponsive program has a rather grim name.

Used with a process number, it is?

kill
kill sends a signal to a process. Despite the name it's really a signal-delivery tool, with grades from a polite shutdown request to the forceful kill -9.
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