dump routine

1. 1.

   a routine that writes from an internal store to some external medium

   Broaderutility routine

Questions about dump routine

What does dump routine mean?

dump routine means "a routine that writes from an internal store to some external medium".

Is dump routine a common word?

dump routine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.