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ABORT
abort
(noun) 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”
abort
(verb) terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
abort
(verb) cease development, die, and be aborted; “an aborting fetus”
abort
(verb) terminate before completion; “abort the mission”; “abort the process running on my computer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
abort (plural aborts)
(obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 17th century.]
(now, rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
(military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
(computing) The function used to abort a process.
(computing) An event involving the abort of a process.
Etymology 2
Verb
abort (third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)
(intransitive, now, rare outside, medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
(transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term. [Attested since at least the 19th century.]
(transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
(intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
(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. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
(transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
(intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
(transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
(transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
Anagrams
• Barot, Barto, Bator, ORBAT, Tabor, Tobar, Torba, boart, rabot, tabor
Source: Wiktionary
A*bort", v. i. Etym: [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.)
Definition: To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.
A*bort", n. Etym: [L. abortus, fr. aboriri.]
1. An untimely birth. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
2. An aborted offspring. [Obs.] Holland.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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