something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
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stopgap
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Editorial note
Toyota killed some people because their dumb code overwrote memory, blasting the OS task tables causing the watchdog task to stop getting CPU time, meaning nothing provided a stopgap against unintended acceleration.
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something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
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Definitions
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noun
something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
Example sentences
Toyota killed some people because their dumb code overwrote memory, blasting the OS task tables causing the watchdog task to stop getting CPU time, meaning nothing provided a stopgap against unintended acceleration.
I seriously doubt that this stopgap, bullshit, announcement has been preceded by considerably more development into Alchemy, and even if they have thrown dozens of people at the project for the last 6 months, it can't possibly justify the cost.
There is some literature[1] indicating the body can tolerate such acidosis better in the absence of hypoxemia so the cited idea may have merit as a stopgap measure, but I'm not sure how effective this scheme would be in near or complete absence of ventilation - like the example cited where the little girl's lungs are full of blood.
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How do you use stopgap in a sentence?
Toyota killed some people because their dumb code overwrote memory, blasting the OS task tables causing the watchdog task to stop getting CPU time, meaning nothing provided a stopgap against unintended acceleration.
What does stopgap mean?
something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
What part of speech is stopgap?
stopgap is commonly used as noun.