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memory hole n

A figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up; nowhere, oblivion. (computing) A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory. (rare) Synonym of memory leak (“any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program whereby parts of memory become hidden or unusable”) The English writer George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, from which the term originates, was published on this day 75 years ago in 1949.

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