abort
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
biology
business
computing
engineering
government
mathematics
medicine
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“to come into being”). Doublet of abortus.
Inflected forms:
form: aborts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aborts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aborting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aborted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aborted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
pos: noun
examples: We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.
gloss: The function used to abort a process.
pos: noun
gloss: An event in which a process is aborted.
pos: noun
examples: We've had three aborts over the last two days.
gloss: The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends.
gloss: To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
regional
examples: Women have aborted, men have committed suicide, and both men and women have been thrown into convulsions during the fearful agony of renal colic.
In the study group ll patients aborted spontaneously between the 17th and 20th gestational week and 8 patients aborted after the 21st week.
gloss: To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: "Of course, you can't abort yourself...I mean you positively can't be allowed to. To begin with it's a crime."
gloss: To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: First he aborts the take-off and now we have a runway incursion!
gloss: To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To terminate a process prior to completion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: abend
exception
Derived words: abortable
abortal
abortation
abortee
aborter
abortient
abortifacient
abortifactive
abortificant
abortion
abortist
abortive
abortment
abortogenic
abortorium
abortuary
abortus
misabort
nonaborting
pro-abort
unabort
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