go flatline

[Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces uponbrain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, orfail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this isused of machines only, human death being considered somewhattoo serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about.

2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoingcontrolled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shutdown Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline."

3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so allone sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.

单词	go flatline
释义	go flatline go flatline [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces uponbrain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, orfail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this isused of machines only, human death being considered somewhattoo serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoingcontrolled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shutdown Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so allone sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
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