Core Dump

Domain	Definition
Computing	Core dump n. [common Iron Age jargon, preserved by Unix] 1. [techspeak] A copy of the contents of core, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error. 2. By extension, used for humans passing out, vomiting, or registering extreme shock. "He dumped core. All over the floor. What a mess." "He heard about X and dumped core." 3. Occasionally used for a human rambling on pointlessly at great length; esp. in apology: "Sorry, I dumped core on you". 4. A recapitulation of knowledge (compare bits, sense 1). Hence, spewing all one knows about a topic (syn. brain dump), esp. in a lecture or answer to an exam question. "Short, concise answers are better than core dumps" (from the instructions to an exam at Columbia). See core. Source: Jargon File.
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Specialty Definition: Core dump

A core dump is a file containing the contents of memory at the time a program or computer crashed. It can be loaded into a debugger to get some idea of what the program was trying to do when it crashed.

In the early days of computing, computer memory was made of wires passing through tiny doughnut-shaped magnetic rings called cores. Hence the term "core" means memory. A dump is to transfer the content of the memory verbatim to record the state of the computer. In early days, a dump was actually a stack of computer printout a few hundred pages long containing all hexadecimal numbers. Programmers read these reports to investigate the cause of a crash.

The term is sometimes used on Usenet for a posting that describes what has been happening in the poster's life, especially if it involves emotional stress; the implication is that the material has not been edited or analyzed.

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Language		Translations for "core dump"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		programme de vidage de mémoire (core dump program, core dump routine). (various references)

Pig Latin		orecay umpday
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Anagrams: Core Dump

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	Words within the letters "c-d-e-m-o-p-r-u"
	-1 letter: crumped, decorum, produce.
	-2 letters: comped, couped, croupe, dumper, poured, recoup, romped, rouped.
	-3 letters: coder, comer, coped, coper, cored, coude, coupe, credo, croup, crude, crump, cured, decor, demur, doper, douce, drupe, duper, duroc, moped, moper, mucor, mucro, mured, odeum, pedro, perdu, pored, proem, proud, prude, roped, umped, uredo.
	-4 letters: cero, code, coed, come, comp, cope.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-m-o-p-r-u"
	+2 letters: compounder, recomputed.
	+3 letters: compounders, computerdom, precomputed, proctodaeum.
	+4 letters: computerdoms, computerised, computerized, discomposure, proctodaeums.
	+5 letters: discomposures, mispronounced, perichondrium, pseudomorphic.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
core dump	12
core dump oracle report	2
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Core Dump

Definition: Core Dump

Core Dump

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Computing

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core dump

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Modern Translation: Core Dump

French

Pig Latin

Anagrams: Core Dump

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INDEX

Expressions using "core dump": core dump program ♦ core dump routine. Additional references.
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