Dead Adj. 1. Non-functional; Down; Crashed. Especially Used Of Hardware.

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dead adj.

1. Non-functional; down; crashed.
Especially used of hardware. 2. At XEROX PARC, software that is
working but not undergoing continued development and support.
3. Useless; inaccessible. Antonym: `live'. Compare dead code.

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