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Encyclopedia > Abort
Look up abort in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Abort can mean: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary[1] is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

  • Abort (computing), to terminate a computer processing or data transfer activity because it is impossible or undesirable for the activity to proceed; also, the function used to achieve the termination
  • Abortion, a premature termination of pregnancy ending in the death of the embryo or fetus
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Pad Abort Test-2 (Apollo) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (548 words)
Pad Abort Test 2 was the second pad abort test of the Apollo spacecraft.
Apollo Pad Abort Test 2 was the fifth of six unmanned Apollo missions that flight tested the capability of the launch escape system (LES) to provide for safe recovery of Apollo crews under critical abort conditions.
This film, however, was not expected to cause excessive degradation to the horizon scan or ground orientation ability during an abort.
Abort (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (202 words)
In a computer or data transmission system, to abort means to terminate, usually in a controlled manner, a processing activity because it is impossible or undesirable for the activity to proceed.
Sometimes the event of aborting can be given a special name, as in the case of an abort involving a Unix kernel where it is known as a "panic".
Specifically in the context of data transmission, an abort is a function invoked by a sending station to cause the recipient to discard or ignore all bit sequences transmitted by the sender since the preceding flag sequence.
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