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Fall to a very low level, as sales
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flatline
Word definitions for flatline in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A flatline is an electrical time sequence measurement that shows no activity and therefore, when represented, shows a flat line instead of a moving one. It almost always refers to either a flatlined electrocardiogram , where the heart shows no electrical ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"give no indication of life, cease to function," by 1998, from the flat (adj.) line (n.) on an electrocardiogram or electroencephalogram when the patient is dead. Related: Flatlined ; flatlining .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An unchanging state, as indicated in a graph of a variable over time. 2 asystole; the absence of heart contractions or brain waves. 3 # The disappearance of the rhythmic peaks displayed on a heart monitor. 4 # The disappearance of brain waves on an ...
Usage examples of flatline.
Since the Decacom could not be turned off, and its battery lasted a month, the only way for the signal to flatline was if the device was destroyed.
Type III PC Card modem, only the card services for Linux are, like, flatlined.
They shimmered into stillness, darkled with death, as the cardiac monitor sang the one long note that signified flatline.
The mats give their gusty wheeze, chalk dust flies up, the fan heater above the Monkey House door rattles and chokes and flatlines briefly before puttering on.
If the suit sensors were flatlining, it would be like losing Holly again.
The buoy is about fifty miles northwest of Johnston's position and pegs fifty-six knots before flatlining at the bottom of the chart.
The lock that screens the hardwiring, it’s down under those towers the Flatline showed you, when you came in.
When someone politically important overseas dies, or is assassinated, they call them up on this FLATLINE hot line, impersonating their Prime Minister, or King, or suchlike, and get secret information out of them, which is why Britannia still rules the waves.
In the year 60,000, man had evolved to his environ: honeycombed by the billions, with each a cubicle-hole to call his own, ergonomically hunchbacked into cushioned chairs with drink-holders and power-steering for all, marsupial ass-pouch wallet-holders and eight-fingered nonprehensile hands fluttering over QWERTY pads while cranially inflated heads soaked up sensory input from nine different modalities with an optic-response curve flatlined across the RGB spectrum and refreshed at 60Hz, 16-bit audio, and a peak throughput of 45MBps (full JPEG, millisecond latencies) when all of a sudden, What do you know?