The phrase brain dump refers to these things:
1) Generally, the transfer of a large quantity of information from one person to another or to a piece of paper can be referred to as a 'brain dump'.
2) In slang, it can describe a hurried explanation of a system, job, skillset, or other software engineering subject.
3) In computing, the phrase describes the taking of a snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes. Thus, the copying of any dataset might be called a 'brain dump' if its contents could be colloquially referred to as a 'brain'.
4) In the IT industry, a 'brain dump' (usually spelled as a compound word braindump) refers to material that has been memorized from an IT certification and used to provide an almost exact replica of the exam. For this reason, examinees are often encouraged to remove their personal items other than their identification prior to an exam.
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Famous quotes containing the words brain and/or dump:
“They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
““... It’s a day’s work
To empty one house of all household goods
And fill another with ‘em fifteen miles away,
Although you do no more than dump them down.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)