memory hole (English, noun)
expansion: memory hole (plural memory holes)
Senses:
glosses: A figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up; nowhere, oblivion.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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”).
tags: rare
Forms:
form: memory holes
tags: plural
form: memory-hole
tags: alternative