info-dump
verbEtymology Compound of info + dump.
info-dump
nounEtymology Compound of info + dump.
1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A large volume of data supplied at the same time.
- Unfortunately, too many corporate meetings are info-dumps — convened for the sake of information exchange, which is more efficiently handled by phone or fax […]1995, Robert W Keidel, Seeing organizational patterns:
2
Literature, Media, Publishing A long section in a work of fiction that reveals often tedious expository information through the voice of the narrator.
3
An act of sharing a large amount of information on a subject one is interested in, particularly as an activity by or among autistic people.
- Related terms
- copypasta, core dump, screen dump, wall of text