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keskeytys — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abort verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
  • abortion noun The deliberate ending of a pregnancy before the foetus can survive on its own.
  • hiatus noun A gap or interruption in something that would otherwise be continuous.
  • interjection noun An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
  • interrupt verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
  • interruption noun An act of breaking in on something, or a pause caused by this.
  • moratorium noun An official, temporary halt to an activity or agreement.
  • pause verb To stop something briefly, intending to continue later.
  • suspension noun A temporary stop or delay of something.

Senses

keskeytys is used for these senses in English:

  • abort (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
  • abortion (medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.[from 16th c.]
  • hiatus An interruption, break, pause or absence.
  • interjection An interruption; something interjected
  • interrupt (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
  • interruption The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
  • pause A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
  • suspension The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.

abort — full definition

  1. verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
  2. verb (medical) To end a pregnancy before the fetus can survive outside the womb.

abortion — full definition

  1. noun The deliberate ending of a pregnancy before the foetus can survive on its own.
  2. noun A pregnancy that ends naturally and too early to produce a surviving baby; a miscarriage.
  3. noun The failure or collapse of a plan, project, or process partway through.

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