bit bucket

See also: bitbucket and bit-bucket

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Noun

bit bucket (plural bit buckets)

  1. (informal, computing) The supposed place where bits go when they fall off the end of a register during a shift operation; the great Recycle Bin in the sky; used to describe the resting-place of lost or missing information
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