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dump: n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem
or the state of a system, especially one routed to the slowest available
output device (compare core dump), and most
especially one consisting of hex or octal runes
describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file.
In elder days, debugging was generally done by
groveling over a dump (see
grovel); increasing use of high-level languages and
interactive debuggers has made such tedium uncommon, and the term dump now has a faintly archaic flavor. 2. A backup. This usage is typical only at large timesharing
installations.
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