Dump

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Dump generally refers to a place for disposal of domestic waste. The word has other uses alone or in combination, and may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

• Dump (band), an alias for the solo recordings of James McNew
• Dump months, the periods of the year when, due to limited box office potential, new movies are generally perceived as being of low quality and limited appeal
• Dump, tape delay (broadcasting)
• The Dump, a blog by Maurice Benayoun

Computing and technology

• Dump (program), a Unix program for backing up file systems
• 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
• ROM dump or ROM image, a record of the data in a ROM, EEPROM, or MCU

Other uses

• Ammunition dump, military stores of ammunition
• Deoxyuridine monophosphate, or dUMP
• Holey dollar, early coin of New South Wales known as a dump
• Illegal dumping
• Ocean dumping
• Dump, a breakup with someone
• Dump cake, a dessert similar to a cobbler (food)
• Rubbish dump, a landfill

See also

• Dumped
• Dumper (disambiguation)
• Dumping (disambiguation)
• Midden