Meaning of ABORT
Pronunciation: | | u'bort
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Matching Terms: | | Abor, aborad, aboral, Abord, aboriginal, Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginality, Aboriginally, aborigine, Aborigines, aborning, Aborsement, Aborsive, Aborted, aborticide, abortifacient, abortion, abortion pill, Abortional, abortion-inducing drug, Abortionist, Abortive, Abortively, Abortiveness, Abortment, abortus
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| Definition: | | 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. |
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| Related Terms: | | 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 |
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