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kernel panic

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English

Syllables
ker-nel -pan-ic
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

On Unix-derived operating systems, an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error, where the system halts, displays an error, and dumps kernel memory to disk.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

kernel panics (plural)

Synonyms

panic

Questions

What does kernel panic mean?
On Unix-derived operating systems, an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error, where the system halts, displays an error, and dumps kernel memory to disk.

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