English Dictionary

abort

/əˈbɔːt/

noun

(military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission. / (computing) The function used to abort a process.

The soldiers received orders to abort the mission.

意味（1）

(military, aeronautics) 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.

意味（2）

(computing) The function used to abort a process.

意味（3）

(computing) An event in which a process is aborted.

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

意味（4）

(now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.

意味（5）

(obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.

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