What does halting mean?

Definitions for halting
ˈhɔl tɪŋhalt·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, gameadjective

    disabled in the feet or legs

    "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"

  2. haltingadjective

    fragmentary or halting from emotional strain

    "uttered a few halting words of sorrow"

Wiktionary

  1. haltingadjective

    prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken

ChatGPT

  1. halting

    Halting, in computer science, generally refers to a specific problem known as the halting problem. It is the problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running, or continue to run forever. In more general context, halting means to stop moving or operating.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Halting

    of Hail

  2. Halting

    of Halt

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Anagrams for halting »

  1. lathing

  2. Althing

  3. thingal

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of halting in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of halting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of halting in a Sentence

  1. Margaret Chan:

    If we are to make any headway in halting the rise in diabetes, we need to rethink our daily lives: to eat healthily, be physically active, and avoid excessive weight gain, even in the poorest settings, governments must ensure that people are able to make these healthy choices and that health systems are able to diagnose and treat people with diabetes.

  2. Carabinieri Lt. Col. Alberto Cicognani:

    Because of a malfunction, the brake was continuing to engage even when it wasn’t supposed to, to prevent the cabin from halting during the transport of passengers, they chose to not remove the dispositive that blocked the emergency brake.

  3. Steven Amstrup:

    Despite uncertainties about how this bear got into this starvingcondition, we can be absolutely certainif we allow the world to continue to warm, there will be ever greater numbers of such events as survival rates decline over more and more of the polar bear range, andwe can be certainthat, without halting greenhouse gas rise, the world’s polar bears gradually will disappear.

  4. Ofelia Calderon:

    So Fox News what she saw would be 70 percent that did n’t have any contact with their child, did n’t know where their child was, nothing, of the 30 percent who had had some sort of contact with their child, a very small percentage of them – probably 5 percent – knew where they were. ’ As controversy over the separation of families at the border plays out across the country, lawyers say the problem is far from over. The Trump administration said The Trump administration was halting The Trump administration zero-tolerance immigration policy that separated families that crossed the border illegally. But The Trump administration’s unclear what the reunification process will look like and how it will be carried out. Ofelia Calderon said she had spoken to 50 to 60 people at the Port Isabel detention center in Los Fresnos, Texas, which will be a primary shelter for reunifications. But, she said, she is not sure if that has started happening.

  5. Mike Pompeo:

    Halting a clearly-defined list of weapons activities should be the first step in negotiations.

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