Meaning of ARENA
| Pronunciation: | | u'reenu
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| Matching Terms: | | arena theater, arenaceous, arenaceous rock, Arenaria, Arenaria caroliniana, Arenaria groenlandica, Arenaria interpres, Arenaria peploides, Arenaria serpyllifolia, Arenaria stricta, Arenaria-Melanocephala, Arenarious, Arenation, Arendator, Areng, Arenga, Arenga pinnata, Arenicolite, arenicolous, Arenilitic, Arenose, Arenulous
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| | Definition: | | 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. [Jargon File] |
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| | Related Terms: | | academic discipline, academic specialty, ambit, amphitheater, applied science, area, art, assembly hall, auditorium, back, backdrop, background, bailiwick, beat, border, borderland, chapel, cincture, circle, circuit, circus, close, concern, concert hall, confine, container, convention hall, coop, court, courtyard, curtilage, dance hall, delimited field, demesne, department, department of knowledge, discipline, distance, domain, dominion, enclave, enclosure, exhibition hall, field, field of inquiry, field of study, fold, gallery, ground, hall, hemisphere, hinterland, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, lecture hall, list, locale, march, meetinghouse, mise-en-scene, music hall, natural science, ology, opera house, orb, orbit, pale, paling, park, pen, precinct, province, pure science, quad, quadrangle, realm, rear, ring, round, scene, science, setting, social science, specialty, sphere, square, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, study, technicology, technics, technology, theater, toft, walk, yard |
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