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Dump can mean:

  • A landfill (usually a less formal and well-contained one)
  • A midden, a mound for dumping domestic waste.
  • Dump (program), a Unix program for backing up file systems
  • Ammunition dump, a location for storing a large amount of material
  • Core dump, the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally (crashed)
  • Database dump, a record of the table structure and/or the data from a database
  • Take a dump, mildly vulgar slang for the act of eliminating human feces
  • Dump (band), an alias for the solo recordings of James McNew
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