Definition of abend
plural abends
computing
:the unexpected failure of a piece of computer software
- As the average network administrator sleeps, nightmares of hardware failures and server abends compete for time against sweet dreams of what some technicians call nirvana, and others call a pipe dream—finding a network operating system that they can call secure.
- —Kevin Novak, Network Computing, 16 Oct. 2000
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