| English Dictionary: abort |
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| 4 results for abort |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- abort
- n
- the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is
completed; "I wasted a year of my life working on an abort"; "he sent a short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the area"
- v
- terminate before completion; "abort the mission"; "abort
the process running on my computer"
- cease development, die, and be aborted; "an aborting fetus"
- terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Abort \A*bort"\ ([adot]*b[ocir]rt"), v. i. [L. abortare, fr.
abortus, p. p. of aboriri; ab + oriri to rise, to be born.
See {Orient}.]
1. To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
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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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Abort \A*bort"\, n. [L. abortus, fr. aboriri.]
1. An untimely birth. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.
2. An aborted offspring. [Obs.] --Holland.
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| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)
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