Abort

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abort \A*bort"\ ([.a]*b[^o]rt"), v. i. [L. abortare, fr.
     abortus, p. p. of aboriri; ab + oriri to rise, to be born.
     See {Orient}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
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     2. (Biol.) To become checked in normal development, so as
        either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to
        become sterile.
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     3. to stop, cease, or fail prior to normal completion.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abort \A*bort"\ ([.a]*b[^o]rt"), v. t.
     to cause (an action or process) to stop at an early stage, or
     before normal completion; as, to abort a rocket flight.
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abort \A*bort"\, n. [L. abortus, fr. aboriri.]
     1. An untimely birth. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.
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     2. An aborted offspring. [Obs.] --Holland.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  abort
       v 1: terminate before completion; "abort the mission"; "abort the
            process running on my computer"
       2: terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "abort":
     abandon, belay, cancel, cease, close, conclude, cut it out, desist,
     determine, discontinue, drop it, end, finish, finish up, give over,
     go amiss, go astray, go wrong, halt, have done with, hold,
     knock it off, lay off, leave off, miscarry, perorate, quit,
     refrain, relinquish, renounce, resolve, scrap, scratch, scrub,
     stay, stop, terminate, wind up
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  abort
       
           To terminate a program or {process} abnormally
          and usually suddenly, with or without {diagnostic}
          information.  "My program aborted", "I aborted the
          transmission".  The noun form in computing is "abort", not
          "abortion", e.g. "We've had three aborts over the last two
          days".
       
          If a {Unix} {kernel} aborts it is known as a {panic}.
       
          (1997-01-07)