crash to desktop
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An event where a software program running on a computer with an operating system that features a graphical desktop unexpectedly terminates without showing any error or halting of the system, and instead returns the user to the desktop.
verb
To experience such an error.
Example Sentences
- "Five months in the making, this latest effort goes a long way in fixing various avionics, campaign, AI, multiplayer and crash-to-desktop issues (see the patch on this month's demo disk)."
- "The only force more powerful than the nuclear bunker-buster is the crash to desktop."
- "You're right in the middle of a thrilling fight with the bad guy and then what happens? A crash to desktop (CTD)."
- "Finally, as if that wasn't punishment enough, the game crashed to desktop several times during my tests."
- "Some programs, especially online games, tend to have coding problems that leave them with memory holes - in other words, they don't delete information from your PC's memory once they're finished with it, they just keep adding and adding until everything overflows. Eventually, this can cause the game to crash to desktop, but adding more memory can help prevent this."
- "Despite extensive planning and countless rounds of testing, we found out (much too late) to our chagrin that the game would “crash to desktop” on certain computers."