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zombie --
(programming) A process that has executed the exit(2) system call and no longer exists, but which leaves a record containing an exit code and some timing statistics for its parent to collect. The zombie state is the final state of a process.

zones --
Administrative boundaries within a domain, often made up of one or more sub-domains. See domain.


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