memory dump

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
memory dump

   <programming, operating system, jargon> (Or "core dump") A
   {file} on {hard disk} (traditionally called "core") containing
   a copy of the contents of a {process}'s memory, produced when
   a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error or
   {signal}.

   {Debuggers} like {adb} and {gdb} can load the dump file and
   display the information it contains about the state of the
   running program.  This can be related to the program code,
   both {object code} and, in a {source-level debugger}, the
   {source code}.  Information includes the contents of
   {registers}, the {call stack} and all other program data.

   (2007-05-09)