(1) A display of some aspect of a computer program's execution state, usually the contents of internal storage or registers. Types include change dump, dynamic dump, memory dump, postmortem dump, selective dump, snapshot dump; static dump.~(2) A display of the contents of a file or device.~(3) To copy the contents of internal storage to an external medium.~(4) To produce a display or copy as in (I), (2), or (3).