The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc.
You need to enter your password at startup, but it's not required at shutdown.
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A statement, insult, etc. that prevents the opponent from replying further.
There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.
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(psychology, autism) An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the individual freezes up and becomes silent, motionless, and unresponsive.
When he insulted me, my reply was such a shutdown that he left the room.
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The vocabulary of software engineers, AI researchers, and anyone living in a terminal or on GitHub — from LLM to MCP, CORS to vibe coding, agentic to enshittification.
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