abort

Plural: aborts

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"
• An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
• The function used to abort a process.
• An event in which a process is aborted.
• The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
• A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.

Verb

Verb Forms: aborted, aborting, aborts

• To bring a process or mission to a premature end.
• 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
• To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
• To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
• To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
• To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
• 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.
• To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
• To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
• To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
• To terminate a process prior to completion.

Examples

• I had to abort my bingo attempt when I realized I was one letter short.
• We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.
• We've had three aborts over the last two days.

Related Words

abend, exception

Anagrams of abort