a-bortとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“to come into being”). Doublet of abortus.

名詞

abort (plural aborts)

1. (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.

2. (computing) The function used to abort a process.
3. (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.

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

4. (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17 century.]
5. (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 17 century.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vi:

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

派生した語

• → Polish: abort
• → Portuguese: abort

語源 2

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

動詞

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 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 century.]
   • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 236:

     "Of course, you can't abort yourself...I mean you positively can't be allowed to. To begin with it's a crime."

3. (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back. [First attested in the late 16 century.]
4. (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages. [First attested in the late 16 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 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 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 century.]
   • 2022, Michael & Stefan Strasser, Chicken Wings‎ (comic):

     First he aborts the take-off and now we have a runway incursion!

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 century.]
9. (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.

派生語

参考

• (computing) abend, exception

参照

• “abort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, https://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/jitc_dri/pdfs/jp1_02.pdf
• “abort” in "Systems and software engineering—vocabulary", ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2010(E), 15 December 2010, →ISBN, DOI 10.1109/IEEESTD.2010.5733835

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