tombstoning (English, noun)
expansion: tombstoning (uncountable)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
tags: British
uncountable
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of (automatically) initiating software sleep mode on an app.
tags: uncountable
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An unwanted effect in the manufacture of electronic circuit boards, in which a component stands up on end instead of lying flat.
tags: uncountable
topics: journalism
media
glosses: 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.
tags: uncountable
glosses: In highway driving, a blockage in traffic caused by a semi-trailer truck attempting to pass another with insufficient acceleration.
tags: Southern-US
uncountable
glosses: The practice of leaving a marker in a location where a digital record has been withdrawn, in order to signify that the record had previously existed.
tags: uncountable
raw_tags: in digital libraries
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tombstone pattern on an electrocardiogram.
tags: uncountable
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