The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABORT which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Scrub, at NASA crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABORT | 100 % | 5 |
Why may ABORT be the right solution?
The answer "ABORT" fits the clue "Scrub, at NASA" because in the context of NASA and space missions, "scrub" refers to the cancellation or termination of a launch. "ABORT" is a term commonly used in the aerospace industry to indicate the cancellation of a mission or launch due to various reasons such as technical issues or safety concerns.
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Crossword Answer definitions
ABORT noun- A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
- The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
- An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
- The function used to abort a process.
- An event involving the abort of a process.
- (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- 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.
- To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
- To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
- To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
- To terminate a process prior to completion.
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