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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Two successive service faults in tennis, resulting in the loss of a point.
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- noun tennis The missing of both the
first serve andsecond serve , resulting in apoint for thereceiver . - noun computing An
exception thrown by theCPU while trying to call the handler of another exception (e.g. the exception handler is invalid or thecall stack has overflown).
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- noun (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point
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