Meaning

• Noun

  1. An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
  2. The function used to abort a process.
  3. An event in which a process is aborted.
  4. The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
  5. (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.

• Verb