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leak

the loss of current from an electrical conductor because of faulty insulation, etc.

leak [lēk]

(plant pathology)

A watery rot of fruits and vegetables caused by various fungi, such asRhizopus nigricansin strawberry.

sound leak

The passage of sound through a crack or hole in a partition; significantly reduces the effectiveness of sound insulation of the partition.

(programming)

leak - With a qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in.

One might refer to, say, a "window handle leak" in a window system.

See memory leak, fd leak.

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