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Dump (landfill)

A municipal landfill site where industrial and household refuse is discarded and buried.

First in use: the 1700s
Duplicate · right

Core dump

A raw, diagnostic snapshot of memory contents (core dump) or database structure written to disk during a crash or backup.

First in use: the 1950s

Dump / Dump (landfill) / Core dump

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Landfills vs. crash snapshots.

Which meaning of Dump is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Dump (landfill) came first (the 1700s). Core dump arrived in the 1950s. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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Dump (landfill)

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