Dumping
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Dumping may refer to:
Computing
- Recording the contents of memory after application or operating system failure, or by operator request, in a core dump for use in subsequent problem analysis.
- Dump, strict data cloning pertaining to storage devices; related to backup
Economics
- Dumping (pricing policy), in international trade, the pricing of a product below its cost of production
- Social dumping, using transitory labour to save costs
- SUTA dumping, the avoidance of paying unemployment insurance taxes
Waste management
- Environmental dumping, the shipping of waste to a country with lax environmental laws
- Ocean dumping, the deliberate disposal of waste at sea
Aircraft technology
- Fuel dumping, used to lighten the aircraft's weight in certain emergency situations
Mathematics
- Equivalent dumping coefficient, used in the calculation of the energy dispersed when a building moves
Medicine
- Gastric dumping syndrome, when intestines fill too quickly with undigested food from the stomach
- Homeless dumping, medical workers releasing homeless patients on the streets
- Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or patient dumping, the refusal to treat people because of inability to pay or insufficient insurance
Other uses
- Dumpin', a 1999 album by hip-hop group Psychopathic Rydas
- Defecation, the final act of digestion