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DEAD, adj. Done with the work of breathing; done With all the world
he mad race run Though to the end; the golden goal Attained and found to be a hole!...
DEADBEEF: /ded-beef/ n. The hexadecimal word-fill pattern for freshly allocated memory (decimal -21524111) under a number of IBM environments, including the RS/6000.
As in "Your program is ...
Dead cat brush -- "101 USES FOR A DEAD MICROPROCESSOR
dead code: n.
Dead end crawl.
Dead, for a ducat, dead! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 4
Dead, huh? Well, that's one less thing. -- Beverly
Dead lizards protect against a cockatrice.
deadlock: n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
A common example is a program comm...
deadly embrace: n. Same as {deadlock}, though usually used only when exactly two processes are involved.
This is the more popular term in Europe, while {deadlock} predominates in the United S...

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