defunct
IPA: dɪfˈʌŋkt
noun
- The dead person (referred to).
verb
- To make defunct.
adjective
- (now rare) Deceased, dead.
- No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
- (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again.
- (computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
- (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
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