Abort
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:7 ptsWWF:8 pts5 letters
Definition of Abort
Noun
- An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
"We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches."
- The function used to abort a process.
- An event in which a process is aborted.
"We've had three aborts over the last two days."
- The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
Verb
- 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.
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