English Dictionary

memory hole

名詞

稀用

A figurative place to which lost or forgotten information is sent, usually deliberately; nowhere. / (computing) A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.

日本語の意味

（比喩）故意に忘れ去られた、または失われた情報が送られる場所、すなわち存在しない場所を指す。 / （コンピュータ用語）メインメモリに対応しない物理アドレス空間の一部を指す。

The committee quietly sent the embarrassing reports into the memory hole to avoid public scrutiny.

委員会は公の精査を避けるために、やっかいな報告書をひそかに記憶の穴に送り込んだ。

意味（1）

A figurative place to which lost or forgotten information is sent, usually deliberately; nowhere.

Jiang Zemin has almost managed to make the event disappear down an Orwellian memory hole. Even in Western countries, sub-editors have taken to calling it the ‘Tiananmen crackdown’, rather than ‘massacre’, making it seem as insignificant as the endless stories about routine ‘crackdowns’ on smuggling, prostitution, counterfeit goods, VAT forms or corruption, which provide the stuff of daily reporting here in China.

意味（2）

(computing) A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.

意味（3）

(computing, rare) A memory leak.

memory holes （ plural ）