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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Panic  \Pan"ic\,  n.  [Gr.  ?  (with  or  without  ?  fear):  cf  F. 
  panigue  See  {Panic},  a.] 
  1.  A  sudden,  overpowering  fright;  esp.,  a  sudden  and 
  groundless  fright;  terror  inspired  by  a  trifling  cause  or 
  a  misapprehension  of  danger;  as  the  troops  were  seized 
  with  a  panic;  they  fled  in  a  panic. 
 
  2.  By  extension:  A  sudden  widespread  fright  or  apprehension 
  concerning  financial  affairs. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Panic  \Pan"ic\,  n.  [L.  panicum.]  (Bot.) 
  A  plant  of  the  genus  {Panicum};  panic  grass;  also  the  edible 
  grain  of  some  species  of  panic  grass. 
 
  {Panic  grass}  (Bot.),  any  grass  of  the  genus  {Panicum}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Panic  \Pan"ic\,  a.  [Gr.  ?  of  or  pertaining  to  ?  Pan,  to  whom  the 
  causing  of  sudden  fright  was  ascribed:  cf  F.  panique.] 
  Extreme  or  sudden  and  causeless;  unreasonable;  --  said  of 
  fear  or  fright;  as  panic  fear,  terror,  alarm.  ``A  panic 
  fright.''  --Dryden. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  panic 
  n  1:  an  overwhelming  feeling  of  fear  and  anxiety  [syn:  {terror}] 
  2:  sudden  mass  fear  and  anxiety  over  anticipated  events;  "panic 
  in  the  stock  market";  "a  war  scare"  [syn:  {scare}] 
  v  1:  feel  panic;  "The  students  panicked  when  told  that  final 
  exams  were  less  than  a  week  away" 
  2:  cause  panic  in  fill  with  panic;  "Th  mere  thought  of  an 
  isolation  cell  panicked  the  prisoners" 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  panic 
 
  1.    What  {Unix}  does  when  a  critical 
  internal  consistency  checks  fails  in  such  a  way  that  Unix 
  cannot  continue.  The  {kernel}  attempts  to  print  a  short 
  message  on  the  {console}  and  write  an  image  of  memory  into  the 
  {swap  area}  on  disk.  This  can  be  analysed  later  using  {adb}. 
  The  kernel  will  then  either  wait  in  a  {tight  loop}  until  the 
  machine  is  rebooted  or  will  initiate  an  automatic  {reboot}. 
 
  {Unix  manual  page}:  panic(8). 
 
  2.  Action  taken  by  software  which  discovers  some  fatal  problem 
  which  prevents  it  from  continuing  to  run. 
 
  (1995-03-01)




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