black-hole
noun
- 1
A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- 2
A gravitationally domineering celestial body with an event horizon from which even light cannot escape; the most dense material in the universe, condensed into a singularity, usually formed by a collapsing massive star.
- 3
A void into which things disappear, or from which nothing emerges; an impenetrable area or subject; an area impervious to communication.
- 4
A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
“One way of fighting spam is to use a blackhole list maintained on a blackhole server.”
- 5
A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
Antonyms
verb
- 1
To redirect (network traffic, etc.) nowhere; to discard (incoming traffic).
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