#process termination

• Aborting — The act of aborting or prematurely terminating a process; the spontaneous or induced termination of a pregnancy (medical term used as a modern synonym for abortion); (in computer science and technology) the process of forcibly and immediately stopping the execution of a program, a script, a data transaction, or an operational mission before scheduled completion; (figurative sense) the early failure of a plan or project.
• Aborting — The act of aborting and its result; a clinical, biological, or mechanical process through which a pregnancy, an organic development, or a technical operation is prematurely interrupted. In a gynecological and veterinary context, it designates the expulsion of the product of conception, while in computer science and automation, it represents the forced and controlled stopping of a program or command sequence before its natural completion.