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go flatline
(foldoc) | go flatline
[Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon
brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or
fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is
used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat
too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about.
2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing
controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut
down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline."
3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all
one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
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go flatline
(jargon) | go flatline
v.
[from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death]
(also adjectival flatlined).
1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly. In hacker parlance,
this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too
serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about.
2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled
shutdown. “You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off
before the system has gone flatline.”
3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a
bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
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