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memory hole

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Noun

  1. A figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up; nowhere, oblivion.
  2. A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.
  3. 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”).
  4. Alternative form of memory hole.

Verb

  1. To cause something or someone to be forgotten.

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