German

Noun

Abort m ‎(genitive Aborts or Abortes, plural Aborte)

1. restroom, loo, toilet
2. abortion, abort

Declension

English

Noun

abort ‎(plural aborts)

1. (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 17^th century.]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.vi:

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

2. (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]
3. (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.‎

4. (computing) The function used to abort a process.
5. (computing) An event involving the abort of a process.

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

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri ‎(“miscarry”), from ab- ‎(“not”) + oriri ‎(“come into being, arise, appear”).

Verb

abort ‎(third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)

1. (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]
   • 1785, Henry Morris, Surgical Diseases of the Kidney, page 458:

     Women have aborted, men have committed suicide, and both men and women have been thrown into convulsions during the fearful agony of renal colic.

   • 1983, M. D. Bennett, Chromosomes Today: Volume 8 Proceedings of the Eighth International Chromosome Conference, page 346:

     In the study group ll patients aborted spontaneously between the 17th and 20th gestational week and 8 patients aborted after the 21st week.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term. [Attested since at least the 19^th century.]
3. (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]
4. (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]
5. (intransitive, biology) 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. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]
6. (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]
7. (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion. [First attested in the mid 20^th century.]
8. (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely. [First attested in the mid 20^th century.]
9. (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.

Derived terms

See also

• abend
• exception

Translations

References

• abort in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
• “abort” in "Systems and software engineering—vocabulary", ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2010(E), 15 December 2010, ISBN 978-0-7381-6205-8, DOI 10.1109/IEEESTD.2010.5733835

Anagrams

• boart, tabor

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Latin abortus.

Noun

abort

1. abort, abortion

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abʌɐ̯t/
• Rhymes: -ʌɐ̯t

Noun

abort c (singular definite aborten, plural indefinite aborter)

1. abortion
2. miscarriage

Inflection

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin abortus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈbɔɾt/, [ɑˈbɔʈː]
• Rhymes: -ɔʈ

Noun

abort m ‎(definite singular aborten, indefinite plural aborter, definite plural abortene)

1. an abortion (deliberate termination of a pregnancy)

Derived terms

• spontan abort, spontanabort

References

• “abort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin abortus

Noun

abort m ‎(definite singular aborten, indefinite plural abortar, definite plural abortane)

1. an abortion (deliberate termination of a pregnancy)

Derived terms

• spontan abort, spontanabort

References

• “abort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

abort m (plural aborts)

1. (computing) abort (function used to abort a process)

Synonyms

• abortamento

Swedish

Noun

abort c

1. (obsolete) an abort, a miscarriage
2. abort, abortion (about the process of aborting a pregnancy)

Declension

Related terms

• abortera
• abortiv
• abortmedel
• få abort
• göra abort

References

• abort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)