abort

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“We've had aborts on three of our last⟳ seven launches.”

“We've had three aborts over the last⟳ two days.”

“In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make⟳ an abort, which Aristotle commends.”

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