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Black hole

/blæk ˈhəʊl/

A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.

📖 Definitions of "Black hole"

noun
  1. 1

    A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.

  2. 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. 3

    A void into which things disappear, or from which nothing emerges; an impenetrable area or subject; an area impervious to communication.

  4. 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."

verb
  1. 1

    To redirect (network traffic, etc.) nowhere; to discard (incoming traffic).

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