Meaning of Tombstone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A grave marker, a stone slab or similar object marking a person's grave.
2. A city in Cochise County, southeastern Arizona, United States.
3. The symbol "∎" marking the end of a proof.
4. A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.
5. A crashdump.
6. An unusual morphological feature on an electrocardiogram indicative of acute myocardial infarction, characterized by a massive ST elevation.
7. A printed advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, typically having unadorned centered text in black and white, enclosed in a simple box.
8. A museum plaque or caption displaying information about a work of art or exhibited object.
9. A pawnbroker's ticket.
   archaic, slang

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Examples

“True, there's no harm in crying for one's husband, and the tombstone, though plain, was a solid piece of work, and on summer's days when the widow brought her boys to stand there one felt kindly towards her.”

“If you attempt to restore a backup that is older than the tombstone lifetime, it may introduce objects that were deleted […]”

“This actually results in a crash dump, which is written to the log and to a tombstone file.”

“The last bit of information on each tombstone is an accession number—an alphanumeric block that is assigned when an object is added (accessioned) to the museums’ collections.”

“"[…] Pity we're not both same size, or I'd steal one of your shirts, for I buried the last of mine yesterday, and here's the tombstone," producing a pawnbroker's duplicate.”

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