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arena

Ancient history the central area of an ancient Roman amphitheatre, in which gladiatorial contests and other spectacles were held

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Arena

A space of any shape surrounded by seats rising in tiers surrounding a stage; a type of theater without a proscenium.

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arena

(POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY) any domain of discourse and competition, or of conflict or struggle for political power.

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arena

[ə′rēn·ə]

(zoology)

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arena

1. An acting space of any shape surrounded by seats.

2. A type of theater not having a proscenium, the spectators” seats, rising in tiers, wholly surrounding the stage.

3. The sanded central area in a Roman amphitheater or circus, surrounded by the seats.

4. Any building, indoor or outdoor, for sports events, etc.

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arena

(programming)

The area of memory attached to a Unix process by the brk and sbrk system calls and used by malloc as dynamic storage. So named from a "malloc: corrupt arena" message emitted when some early versions detected an impossible value in the free block list.

See overrun screw, aliasing bug, memory leak, memory smash, smash the stack.

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