Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zombie process

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English

Syllables: zom-bie pro-cess
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A child process that has terminated but is still listed in the process table, having not yet been reaped by its parent process.

Inflected Forms

zombie processes (plural)

Synonyms

zombie state

Questions

What does zombie process mean?: A child process that has terminated but is still listed in the process table, having not yet been reaped by its parent process.

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