Usually means: Depression formed by ground collapse.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. sinkhole: Merriam-Webster
  2. sinkhole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sinkhole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sinkhole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sinkhole: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sinkhole, sinkhole: Wordnik
  7. sinkhole: Wiktionary
  8. sinkhole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sinkhole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sinkhole: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sinkhole: Dictionary.com
  12. Sinkhole (disambiguation), Sinkhole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sinkhole: Rhymezone
  14. sinkhole: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sinkhole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sinkhole: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinkhole: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinkhole: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  2. sinkhole: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sinkhole: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sinkhole)

noun:  (geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
noun:  A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
noun:  (pinball) A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
noun:  (Internet) A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.
noun:  (computer security) An attack which redirects requests, whether network or memory accesses, to a new location defined by the attacker.
verb:  (Internet, transitive) To configure as a sinkhole (domain name server that gives non-routeable addresses).

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