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abort(1) To exit a function or application without saving any data that has been changed. abort [ə′bȯrt] (aerospace engineering) To cut short or break off an action, operation, or procedure with an aircraft, space vehicle, or the like, especially because of equipment failure. An aircraft, space vehicle, or the like which aborts. An act or instance of aborting. (computer science) To terminate a procedure, such as the running of a computer program or the printing of a document, while it is still in progress.
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| Government approves and pharmaceutical companies sell
contraceptives to prevent the transmission of of life during fornication
or adultery, while the "morning-after pill" simply aborts the
life of a child, should one be conceived. The witnessing of a lynching puts a violent end to the
narrator's symphonic project, but there is a violence implicit in
the symphonic project before the lynching aborts it, a violent impulse
linked to the symphony's ability to "blot out time. (34 kg) and a metal tracking feature, which tracks the
pouring arm as the sensors contact the metal and aborts the cycle if the
ladle exceeds the programmable position limit. |
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