Phrase guide
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noun
A figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up; nowhere, oblivion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: bit bucket, /dev/null
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of memory leak (“any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program whereby parts of memory become hidden or unusable”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: memory leak
Antonyms: none provided
History
From memory + hole. Sense 1 (“figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up”) is a transferred use of the physical slots which the English writer George Orwell (1903–1950) refers to in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), into which censored documents for destruction are dropped.
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
