Terminating vs Abortion - What's the difference?
terminating | abortion |
Coming to an end.
(mathematics) Of a decimal: having a finite number of digits.
(medicine, or, dated) The cessation of pregnancy or fetal development:
# (medicine, or, dated) a miscarriage.
# (still current) an induced abortion.
# The act of inducing the cessation of pregnancy.
(dated) The immature product of an untimely birth.
A monstrosity; a misshapen person.
(figuratively) Failure of a promise or a goal.
(biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
Any fruit or produce which is interrupted in its progress before it is matured or perfect; an idea, project, or anything that does not come to maturity.
* {{quote-book, date = 1800-09-23
, title = Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush
, first = Thomas
, last = Jefferson
, authorlink = Thomas Jefferson
, url = http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj090069))
, passage = The returning good sense of our country threatens abortion to their hopes, & they believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.
}}
(chiefly, arts) Something ugly, an artistic atrocity.
* 1846 , , Pictures from Italy , [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=269656481&textreg=2&query=abortion&id=DicPict Chapter 10].
The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.
An unpleasant or poorly executed idea or project.
* 1999', "foo...@my-deja.com", ''Menace is AN '''ABORTION OF A MOVIE'' (on newsgroup ''alt.fan.starwars )
* 2000 , "Jules", please dont buy beacon cd'' (on newsgroup ''alt.fan.allman-brothers )
* 2003 , David Kerekes, Headpress 24: Powered by Love (page 133)
As a verb terminating
is .As an adjective terminating
is coming to an end.As a noun abortion is
(medicine|or|dated) the cessation of pregnancy or fetal development:.terminating
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)- Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.
Synonyms
*(math ): finiteAntonyms
*(math ): nonterminatingabortion
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(wikipedia abortion)Noun
(en noun)- Insomuch that I do honestly believe, there can be no place in the world, where such intolerable abortions , begotten of the sculptor’s chisel, are to be found in such profusion, as in Rome.
- Dickey on his own manages to turn a simple bo diddley 1-2-3-4 into an absolute abortion of a song.
- an absolute abortion of a book