core dump

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A copy of the data stored in the core memory of a computer, usually used for debugging purposes.

Wiktionary

1. n. computing The recorded state of the memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. See core dump in the vocabulary.
2. n. (Computers) An complete and exact copy of the contents of a computer core{9}, usually produced as a file when some serious error occurs in the execution of a computer program, and used for debugging the program which produced the error.
3. n. A full account of a person's knowledge on some specific topic, usually produced in response to a question of some kind. It is a mildly deprecatory term, suggesting that the person producing the account was unable to prepare a more concise and understandable summary of the information.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. (computer science) dump of the contents of the chief registers in the CPU; usually used for debugging