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leak
n. With qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur
when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished,
so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion
as new allocation requests come in. memory leak has its own entry; one might
also refer, to, say, a window handle leak in a window system.