abort : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: abort	by the DICT Development Group
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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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Abort \Abort"\ ([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.
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.
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)