core dump

[kawr duhmp]

noun

Computers.

1. a copy of main memory that is printed, displayed, or recorded on an output medium.

Word History and Origins

Origin of core dump¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

The engineers survived “core dumps” and rainstorms to nail capsule reentry times.

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If necessary, they would cut the cables, and gravity would expeditiously return the control rods to the reactor, thereby averting yet another kind of core dump.

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Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit.

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"Another core dump -- looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow."

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The process of grovelling through a core dump or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down.

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