Thesaurus / abort
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If the NFT thinks the TAGSAM arm is coming down on something dangerous flagged by the hazard map, it will automatically execute an abort burn that moves the spacecraft up and away from the surface.
A NASA SPACECRAFT IS ABOUT TO SCOOP UP SOME ASTEROID RUBBLENEEL PATELOCTOBER 14, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWBecause the abort was triggered just before the rocket's main RS-68 engines had begun to ignite, the delay before the next launch attempt may be less than a week.
DELTA IV HEAVY SCRUBS AGAIN, ULA CHIEF VOWS TO CHANGE READINESS OPERATIONSERIC BERGEROCTOBER 1, 2020ARS TECHNICAI've tried my best to abort this big bug, but I can't find anything amiss.
TIGHT SQUEEZEDEAN CHARLES INGAfter we took off and headed for Europe across the Channel there would usually be someone who would abort the mission.
THE BIOGRAPHY OF A RABBITROY BENSONSome appearances make me think that they abort by becoming confluent with the main petiole.
MORE LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN VOLUME IICHARLES DARWINContinuous application of equal parts of alcohol and water night and day may abort it.
THE EUGENIC MARRIAGE, VOLUME IV. (OF IV.)GRANT HAGUEThe bruised leaves are used locally in painful affections of the joints and to abort syphilitic buboes and abscesses of all kinds.
THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PHILIPPINEST. H. PARDO DE TAVERACows during the first two or three months of gestation are almost sure to abort.
BARIUM, A CAUSE OF THE LOCO-WEED DISEASEALBERT CORNELIUS CRAWFORDPsychic conditions have been known to induce attacks, and sometimes to abort them or even to cause their disappearance.
MANUAL OF SURGERYALEXIS THOMSON AND ALEXANDER MILESThe mother may abort once at the third month, and with the next pregnancy bear a living syphilitic child.
THE THIRD GREAT PLAGUEJOHN H. STOKESWORDS RELATED TO ABORT
- aborting
- adioing
- be alienating from
- breaking with
- calling off
- canceling
- casting off
- ceasing
- deserting
- discontinuing
- dismissing
- disowning
- ditching
- divorcing
- dust off
- eighty-sixing
- ending
- forfeiting
- forgetting about
- forsaking
- giving up
- have doing with
- interrupting
- jilting
- kicking
- leaving
- losing
- part from
- part with
- quitting
- rejecting
- relinquishing
- remitting
- renouncing
- repudiating
- resigning
- sacrificing
- scratching
- scrubbing
- separating
- shaking
- stopping
- terminating
- throwing over
- washing out
- wasting one
- wiping out
- writing off
- abolish
- abort
- accomplish
- achieve
- break off
- break up
- call it a day
- call off
- cease
- close
- close out
- complete
- conclude
- consummate
- crown
- culminate
- cut short
- delay
- determine
- discontinue
- dispose of
- dissolve
- drop
- expire
- finish
- get done
- give up
- halt
- interrupt
- pack it in
- perorate
- postpone
- pull the plug
- put the lid on
- quit
- relinquish
- resolve
- settle
- sew up
- shut down
- stop
- switch off
- terminate
- top off
- ultimate
- wind up
- wrap
- wrap up
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