abort🔊

(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 in which a process is aborted.

(rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.

(obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.

(medicine) 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.

(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.

(biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.

(military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.

(aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.

(computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.