[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

abort \abort"\ .ab^ort", v. i. l. abortare, fr.
   abortus, p. p. of aboriri; ab + oriri to rise, to be born.
   see orient.
   1913 webster
   1. to miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
      1913 webster

   2. biol. to become checked in normal development, so as
      either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to
      become sterile.
      1913 webster

   3. to stop, cease, or fail prior to normal completion.
      pjc
see also:
orient 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

abort \abort"\ .ab^ort", v. t.
   to cause an action or process to stop at an early stage, or
   before normal completion; as, to abort a rocket flight.
   pjc

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

abort \abort"\, n. l. abortus, fr. aboriri.
   1. an untimely birth. obs. --sir h. wotton.
      1913 webster

   2. an aborted offspring. obs. --holland.
      1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

abort
     v 1: terminate before completion; "abort the mission"; "abort the
          process running on my computer"
     2: terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

38 moby thesaurus words for "abort":
   abandon, belay, cancel, cease, close, conclude, cut it out, desist,
   determine, discontinue, drop it, end, finish, finish up, give over,
   go amiss, go astray, go wrong, halt, have done with, hold,
   knock it off, lay off, leave off, miscarry, perorate, quit,
   refrain, relinquish, renounce, resolve, scrap, scratch, scrub,
   stay, stop, terminate, wind up

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

abort
     
         to terminate a program or process abnormally
        and usually suddenly, with or without diagnostic
        information.  "my program aborted", "i aborted the
        transmission".  the noun form in computing is "abort", not
        "abortion", e.g. "we've had three aborts over the last two
        days".
     
        if a unix kernel aborts it is known as a panic.
     
        1997-01-07
     
     
see also:
process diagnostic unix kernel panic 

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