Usually means: Terminating a process or development.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word aborting:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. aborting: Merriam-Webster
  2. aborting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. aborting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Aborting, aborting: Wordnik
  5. aborting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. aborting: Wiktionary
  7. aborting: Dictionary.com
  8. aborting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Aborting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. aborting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aborting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aborting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aborting: Medical dictionary

(Note: See abort as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (abort)

noun:  (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
noun:  (computing) The function used to abort a process.
noun:  (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
noun:  (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
noun:  (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
verb:  (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
verb:  (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
verb:  (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
verb:  (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
verb:  (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
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