crash, computer

Cultural  

1. The process whereby a computer fails or ceases to function properly.

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Example Sentences

This week, as computers crash, computer makers are voting Trump.

From Slate

With the traditional US job market still a smouldering charcoal pit after the 2008 crash, computer programming skills were promoted as one sure way to attain the sort of prosperity and stability Americans had over many decades come to expect.

From The Guardian

Budiansky recalls that a crash computer program costing $20 million in 1957 could still only exploit about 3 percent of a Soviet cipher known as Silver.

From Washington Post

N. Korean attack suspected after bank networks crash Computer networks at two major banks and three top broadcasters went into shutdown mode en masse.

From Washington Post