Usually means: Program stops running, ends execution.
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  1. halts: Merriam-Webster
  2. halts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. halts, the halts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Halts, halts: Wordnik
  5. halts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. halts: Wiktionary
  7. halts: Dictionary.com
  8. halts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. halts: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. halts: Legal dictionary

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  1. halts: Encyclopedia

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

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  1. HALTS: Acronym Finder
  2. halts: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Halts: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (HALT)

verb:  (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
verb:  (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
verb:  (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
verb:  To waver.
verb:  To falter.
verb:  (intransitive) To stop marching.
verb:  (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
verb:  (transitive) To bring to a stop.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
noun:  A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
noun:  (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
adjective:  (archaic) Lame, limping.
noun:  (dated) Lameness; a limp.
noun:  (British, Ireland) A small railroad station, usually unstaffed or with very few staff, and with few or no facilities.
noun:  Acronym of hungry, angry, lonely, (or) tired.
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