abort
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /əˈbɔːt/
美 /əˈbɔɹt/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
- The function used to abort a process.
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An event in which a process is aborted.
— We've had three aborts over the last two days.
- The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
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A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
— In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends.
动词 v.
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To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
— Women have aborted, men have committed suicide, and both men and women have been thrown into convulsions during the fearful agony of renal colic.
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To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
— "Of course, you can't abort yourself...I mean you positively can't be allowed to. To begin with it's a crime."
- To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- 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.
- To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
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To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
— First he aborts the take-off and now we have a runway incursion!
- To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
- To terminate a process prior to completion.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“to come into being”). Doublet of abortus.
词源 2
From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).
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