Dumping
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Dumping may refer to a subject...
...in computing:
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...in waste management:
...in aircraft technology:
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Other uses:
...in computing:
- Recording the contents of memory after application or operating system failure, or by operator request, in a core dumpCore dumpIn computing, a core dump consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally...
for use in subsequent problem analysis. - Recording a file or medium as a backupBackupIn information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....
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...in economics:
- Dumping (pricing policy)Dumping (pricing policy)In economics, "dumping" is any kind of predatory pricing, especially in the context of international trade. It occurs when manufacturers export a product to another country at a price either below the price charged in its home market, or in quantities that cannot be explained through normal market...
, in international trade, the pricing of a product below its cost of production - Social dumpingSocial dumping"Social dumping" is a term that is used to describe a temporary or transitory movement of labour, whereby employers use workers from one country or area in another country or area where the cost of labour is usually more expensive, thus saving money and potentially increasing profit.It was also...
, using transitory labour to save costs - SUTA dumpingSUTA dumpingSUTA Dumping is a name commonly used to describe a practice used by some companies doing business in the United States to circumvent paying unemployment insurance taxes, as mandated by the Unemployment Tax Act of 1939....
, the avoidance of paying unemployment insurance taxes
...in waste management:
- Environmental dumpingEnvironmental dumpingEnvironmental dumping is the practice of transfrontier shipment of waste from one country to another. The goal is to take the waste to a country that has less strict environmental laws, or environmental laws that are not strictly enforced...
, the shipping of waste to a country with lax environmental laws - Ocean dumping, the deliberate disposal of waste at sea
...in aircraft technology:
- Fuel dumpingFuel dumpingFuel dumping is a procedure used by aircraft in certain emergency situations before a return to the airport shortly after takeoff, or before landing short of its intended destination to lighten the aircraft's weight.-Aircraft fuel dump:Aircraft have two major types of weight limits: the maximum ...
, used to lighten the aircraft's weight in certain emergency situations
...in mathematics:
- Equivalent dumping coefficientEquivalent dumping coefficientAn equivalent dumping coefficient is a mathematical coefficient used in the calculation of the energy dispersed when a structure moves. As a civil engineering term, it defines the percent of a cycle of oscillation that is absorbed for the structure or sub-structure under analysis...
, used in the calculation of the energy dispersed when a building moves
...in medicine:
- Gastric dumping syndromeGastric dumping syndromeGastric dumping syndrome, or rapid gastric emptying is a condition where ingested foods bypass the stomach too rapidly and enter the small intestine largely undigested. It happens when the upper end of the small intestine, the duodenum, expands too quickly due to the presence of hyperosmolar food...
, when intestines fill too quickly with undigested food from the stomach - Homeless dumpingHomeless dumpingHomeless dumping is the practice of hospital employees or emergency workers releasing homeless patients on the streets instead of placing them into the custody of a relative, a warming center or shelter or retaining them in a hospital where they may require expensive medical care...
, medical workers releasing homeless patients on the streets - Patient dumping, the refusal to treat people because of inability to pay or insufficient insurance
...in music:
- Dumpin', a 1999 album by hip-hop group "Psychopathic Rydas"
Other uses:
- a pejorative term for defecationDefecationDefecation is the final act of digestion by which organisms eliminate solid, semisolid or liquid waste material from the digestive tract via the anus. Waves of muscular contraction known as peristalsis in the walls of the colon move fecal matter through the digestive tract towards the rectum...