Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/June 8

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Word of the day
for June 8
memory hole n
  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. (computing)
    1. A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.
    2. (rare) 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”)

The English writer George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, from which the term originates, was published on this day 75 years ago in 1949.

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