Usually means: Terminate or end process prematurely.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. abort: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abort: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abort: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abort: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abort: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abort, abort: Wordnik
  7. abort: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abort: Wiktionary
  9. abort: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abort: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abort: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. abort: Dictionary.com
  13. abort: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Abort (C), Abort (album), Abort (computing), Abort (film), Abort: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Abort: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. abort: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. abort: Rhymezone
  18. abort: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. abort: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. abort: Free Dictionary
  21. abort: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. abort: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. abort: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. abort: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abort-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. abort: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. abort: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. abort: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. abort: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. abort: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ABORT: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abort: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Abort: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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