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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tombstone \Tomb"stone`\, n. A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, originally the flat stone atop a grave (or the lid of a stone coffin); from tomb + stone (n.). Meaning "gravestone, headstone" is attested from 1711. The city in Arizona, U.S., said to have been named by prospector Ed Schieffelin, who found silver there in 1877 after being told all he would find there was his tombstone.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A headstone marking the person's grave. 2 (context mathematics English) The symbol "(term ∎ Translingual)" marking the end of a proof. vb. (context surfing English) For a surfboard to stand upright half-submerged in the water (like a tombstone, above) because the surfer is underwater with his or her legrope pulled tight. Often this indicates a surfer in difficulty, either held down by the power of a wave or unconscious and unable to get to the surface.
WordNet
n. a stone that is used to mark a grave [syn: gravestone, headstone]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 839
Land area (2000): 4.299826 sq. miles (11.136498 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.299826 sq. miles (11.136498 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74400
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 31.715940 N, 110.064827 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 85638
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
A tombstone is a stele or marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave.
Tombstone may also refer to:
- Tombstone, Arizona, a town in Arizona
Tombstone is a 1993 American biographical revisionist Western film directed by George P. Cosmatos, written by Kevin Jarre (who was also the original director, but was replaced early in production) and starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, with Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, and Dana Delany in supporting roles, as well as a narration by Robert Mitchum.
The film is based on events in Tombstone, Arizona, including the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the Earp Vendetta Ride, during the 1880s. It depicts a number of western outlaws and lawmen, such as Wyatt Earp, William Brocius, Johnny Ringo, and Doc Holliday.
Tombstone was released by Hollywood Pictures in theatrical wide release in the United States on December 24, 1993, grossing $56.5 million in domestic ticket sales. The film was a financial success, and for the Western genre it ranks number 14 in the list of highest-grossing films since 1979. Critical reception was generally positive, but the film failed to garner award nominations for production merits or acting from any mainstream motion picture organizations.
The tombstone, Halmos, end of proof, or Q.E.D. mark "∎" is used in mathematics to denote the end of a proof, in place of the traditional abbreviation "Q.E.D." for the Latin phrase " quod erat demonstrandum", "which was to be shown". In magazines, it is one of the various symbols used to indicate the end of an article.
In Unicode, it is represented as character . Its graphic form varies. It may be a hollow or filled rectangle or square.
In AMS-LaTeX, the symbol is automatically appended at the end of a proof environment \begin{proof} ... \end{proof}. It can also be obtained from the commands \qedsymbol or \qed (the latter causes the symbol to be right aligned).
It is sometimes called a halmos after the mathematician Paul Halmos, who first used it in mathematical context. He got the idea of using it from seeing it was being used to indicate the end of articles in magazines. In his memoir I Want to Be a Mathematician, he wrote the following:
Tombstone (Lonnie Thompson Lincoln) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
In advertising, a tombstone is a particular type of print advertisement appearing in a newspaper or magazine. Tombstone ads are typically unadorned text, black on white, often enclosed in a simple box, with a centered headline and a number of lines in the body of the ad, usually also centered. The name originates from their similarity in appearance to the text on a tombstone ( headstone) grave marker.
Besides underwriters in a securities offering (see tombstone (financial industry)), fine art dealers and some traditional luxury goods vendors sometimes also use the tombstone form.
A tombstone is a deleted record in a replica of a distributed data store. The tombstone is necessary, as distributed data stores use eventual consistency, where only a subset of nodes where the data is stored must respond before an operation is considered to be successful.
Tombstones are a mechanism to detect dangling pointers that can appear in certain computer programming languages, e. g. C, C++ and assembly languages, and to act as a containment to their dangerous effects.
A tombstone is a structure that acts as an intermediary between a pointer and the heap-dynamic data in memory. The pointer – sometimes called the handle – points only at tombstones and never to the memory that holds the actual value. When the data is deallocated, the tombstone is set to a null (or, more generally, to a value that is illegal for a pointer in the given runtime environment), indicating that the variable no longer exists. This prevents the use of invalid pointers, which would otherwise access the memory area that once belonged to the now deallocated variable, although it may already contain other data, in turn leading to corruption of in-memory data. Depending on the operating system, the CPU can automatically detect such an invalid access (e. g. for the null value: a null pointer dereference error). This supports in analyzing the actual reason, a programming error, in debugging, and it can also be used to abort the program in production use, to prevent it from continuing with invalid data structures.
In more generalized terms, a tombstone can be understood as a marker for "this data is no longer here". For example, in filesystems it may be efficient when deleting files to mark them as "dead" instead of immediately reclaiming all their data blocks.
The downsides of using tombstones include a computational overhead and additional memory consumption: extra processing is necessary to follow the path from the pointer to data through the tombstone, and extra memory is necessary to retain tombstones for every pointer throughout the program. One other problem is that all the code that needs to work with the pointers in question needs to be implemented to use the tombstone mechanism.
No popular programming language currently uses tombstones. However, built–in support by the programming language or the compiler is not necessary to use them.
A tombstone, also known as a pedestal-type fixture, tooling tower, tooling column or fixture block, is a fixture of two or more sides, onto which are mounted parts to be manufactured. Tombstones are typically used in automated systems: parts are loaded onto the tombstone so that robots may operate on one part, flip the tombstone, and operate on the next part until all processes are completed, then transport the entire tombstone to the next station.
The first tombstone type fixture was patented in 1971 by the Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke.
Tombstones are used in agile manufacturing to facilitate quick and easy installation, scalability and reconfiguration.
A tombstone is a type of print notice that is most often used in the financial industry to formally announce a particular transaction, such as an initial public offering or placement of stock of a company.
The Securities Act of 1933 required the publication of the tombstone advertisement to be printed in a newspaper and provide the barest of information on the transaction as the last step in the financial deal.
This public disclosure is done in a form that lists the participants in a specified order according to their role in underwriting or brokering the transaction. The name of this disclosure comes from the appearance of advertisement used, a ' tombstone ad', so called because the simple, centered text style with large amounts of whitespace and few if any images or other adornments make them resemble some of the tombstones found in cemeteries. Additional information such as "photographs of investment properties or descriptions of the tax benefits of investments" are not allowed in financial tombstones. However, another view is that in the 19th century, financial notices were published in newspapers alongside birth and death notices.
Tombstone ads are considered by the SEC to "condition the market" for the securities, and thus are an offer even though the notice may have not specifically describe the transaction. In public offerings, investment bankers can sell securities to investors only by means of a prospectus that has been filled with the SEC; therefore, tombstones announcing such transactions have a notice that they are "not an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy."
Among financial firms, and more specifically, the investment banking community, the term "tombstone" may also refer to a trophy or deal tombstone, known as a deal toy.
Usage examples of "tombstone".
If he really was starting to sound like Tombstone, he thought, then he really had made something of himself as an aviator after all.
Tombstone kept his descent constant at five hundred feet per minute and relied on the advice of the LSO, a veteran aviator with a much better perspective on the approach than Magruder had himself, to keep him on track.
While Tombstone and Batman had been over northern Thailand, other aircraft from their squadron had been patrolling the skies closer to the Jefferson.
Tombstone, Batman, Nightmare Marinaro and Price Taggart all sat in the synthetic leather chairs of the Ready Room, sipping Cokes and swapping stories.
There was a stunned silence, then Batman heard Tombstone responding for Eagle.
Tombstone saw Batman ahead, a black speck pursued by four smaller specks, weaving and twisting back and forth, working to shake his pursuers.
Others, like Tombstone and Batman, set down at U Feng, dropping onto a runway partly masked by drifting smoke.
Tombstone gave Jane a sketchy but vigorous idea of his opinions on gumption, as distinct from bull-headedness.
This cathedral among the moors, with its massive masonry, its dark oak carving, its fragments of gorgeous glass, its ghostly hatchments and banners, and its aisles paved with the tombstones of the dead, was a new revelation.
There were five men besides Hsiao, a scarred civilian named Phreng and four others who Tombstone thought might be soldiers, though they did not wear uniforms.
All Tombstone knew was that the lives of his shipmates might well be riding on whether Hsiao got the verification he demanded.
As they tied her hands and feet, Hsiao turned to face Tombstone and Bayerly again.
He and Pamela would have hostage value for negotiations if nothing else, and Hsiao did not seem to Tombstone to be the sort of man who would throw away any advantage, however small.
Near Arsincevo Kerch Peninsula, the Crimea Tombstone stood on the low hill, peering through binoculars at the tank farm below.
By the dazzling light of the new-risen sun, Tombstone could see Kerch itself to the northeast, a drab-looking city separated by the sparkling blue waters of the Kerch Strait from the gray strip of land marking the western tip of the Taman Peninsula.