tombstoning

Meanings

Noun

• The practice of jumping into the sea or similar body of water from a cliff or other high point such that the jumper enters the water vertically straight, like a tombstone.
• The process of (automatically) initiating software sleep mode on an app.
• An unwanted effect in the manufacture of electronic circuit boards, in which a component stands up on end instead of lying flat.
• In page layout, putting articles side by side so that the headlines are adjacent. The phenomenon is also referred to as bumping heads.
• In highway driving, a blockage in traffic caused by a semi-trailer truck attempting to pass another with insufficient acceleration.
• The practice of leaving a marker in a location where a digital record has been withdrawn, in order to signify that the record had previously existed.
• A tombstone pattern on an electrocardiogram.

Verb

• Present participle of tombstone

Related

Similar words

• tombstone effect, drawbridging, Manhattan effect

Origin

• tombstone + -ing.