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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To remove a hidden electronic device, such as a microphone, from.
  • transitive verb To make (a hidden microphone, for example) ineffective.
  • transitive verb To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in.
  • transitive verb To remove insects or other small pests from, as with a pesticide.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from somewhere
  • verb computer science To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery
  • verb US To remove insects from somewhere

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb locate and correct errors in a computer program code

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

de- + bug

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Examples

  • If you want to see some debug information from the fetchexec process, uncomment the line $debug = 1; in file config. inc.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • She was instrumental in developing COBOL and takes credit for inventing the word "debug" as applied to computers - she says because a moth disabled a computer she was working on during WWII, and she remarked that the computer needed "debugging."

    Forbes.com: News Forbes Blogs 2011

  • The video showed Carrier IQ recording everything Eckhart entered into his phone, storing the data in what's known as a debug log.

    CNN.com 2011

  • Test case 2: I try to now run my application itself (instead of the deployed website) as I want to debug, that is where the issue arises.

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community LotusShiv 2010

  • Just a note, the most essential requirement to debug is to Enable Debugging in CF Administrator so don't miss checking that part of the video as well.

    Adobe Blogs Bhakti Pingale 2009

  • Assuming, I am creating my Yahtzee A.I. using evolutionary techniques, it would be natural for me to "debug" the process.

    Loscon Steven Barnes 2009

  • It is then that your average hacker begins to look into the meaning of life and the universal systems, and when they encounter anomolies they attempt to 'debug' the system.

    catpewk Diary Entry catpewk 2006

  • a program can have a memory corruption or a double free. therefore, I can use MALLOC_CHECK_ to debug, which is fine.

    LinuxQuestions.org ocaoca 2010

  • Purdue University researchers, working with high-performance computing experts at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have created an automated program to "debug" simulations used to more efficiently certify the nation's nuclear weapons.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers, working with high-performance computing experts at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have created an automated program to "debug" simulations used to more efficiently certify the nation's nuclear weapons.

    Science Blog 2010

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