memory hole
A figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to…A figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up; nowhere, oblivion.
Meaning
3 sensesA figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up; nowhere, oblivion.
Erinnerungsloch, Gedächtnisloch
A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.
(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”).
Translations
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Origin
From memory + hole. Sense 1 (“figurative place to which information is deliberately sent tFrom memory + hole. Sense 1 (“figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up”) is a transferred use of the physical slots which the English writer George Orwell (1903–1950) refers to in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), into which censored documents for destruction are dropped.
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