teak

n 1: hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees;

resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture

and in shipbuilding [syn: {teakwood}]

2: tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa

and tropical America for its hard durable wood [syn: {Tectona

grandis}]

leak

With a qualifier, one of a class of

resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not

freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they

effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual

exhaustion as new allocation requests come in.

One might refer to, say, a "window handle leak" in a {window

system}.

See {memory leak}, {fd leak}.

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(1995-04-18)