abort
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.Examples: "We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches."
2. (computing) The function used to abort a process.
3. (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.Examples: "We've had three aborts over the last two days."
4. (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.archaic
5. (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.Examples: "In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.Examples: "Women have aborted, men have committed suicide, and both men and women have been thrown into convulsions during the fearful agony of renal colic."; "In the study group ll patients aborted spontaneously between the 17th and 20th gestational week and 8 patients aborted after the 21st week."intransitiveregional
2. (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.Examples: ""Of course, you can't abort yourself...I mean you positively can't be allowed to. To begin with it's a crime.""intransitivetransitive
3. (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.transitive
4. (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.intransitive
5. (intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.intransitive
6. (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary