Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In a computer or data transmission system, abort means to terminate, usually in a controlled manner, a processing activity because it is impossible or undesirable for the activity to proceed. A program or process is terminated abnormally and usually suddenly, with or without diagonstic information. "My program aborted", "I aborted the transmission". The noun form in computing is "abort", not "abortion", e.g. "We've had three aborts over the last two days". If a Unix kernel aborts it is known as a panic. See also: Computing Panic (computing) This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC, used with permission. Modify if needed. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.