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noun
The practice of jumping into the sea or similar body of water from a cliff or other high point such that the jumper enters the water vertically straight, like a tombstone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, uncountable
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noun
The process of (automatically) initiating software sleep mode on an app.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
An unwanted effect in the manufacture of electronic circuit boards, in which a component stands up on end instead of lying flat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
In page layout, putting articles side by side so that the headlines are adjacent (also referred to as bumping heads), or so that headline from one article is adjacent to the photo from another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: journalism, media
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noun
In highway driving, a blockage in traffic caused by a semi-trailer truck attempting to pass another with insufficient acceleration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, uncountable
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noun
The practice of leaving a marker in a location where a digital record has been withdrawn, in order to signify that the record had previously existed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A tombstone pattern on an electrocardiogram.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
present participle and gerund of tombstone
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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History
From tombstone + -ing.
Across languages
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