catatonic
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (1)
- characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbsRelating to catatonia
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. of or pertaining to catatonia; suffering from catatonia.
2. appearing mentally stupefied, unresponsive, and motionless, or almost so; seemingly unaware of one's environment. colloquial
a person suffering from catatonia.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors, WordNet 1.5
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<jargon> A description of a system that gives no indication that it is still working. This might be because it has crashed without being able to give any error message or because it is busy but not designed to give any feedback.
Compare buzz. [Jargon File]
(2004-08-19)
The Jargon File
Describes a condition of suspended animation in which something is so wedged or hung that it makes no response. If you are typing on a terminal and suddenly the computer doesn't even echo the letters back to the screen as you type, let alone do what you're asking it to do, then the computer is suffering from catatonia (possibly because it has crashed). “ There I was in the middle of a winning game of nethack and it went catatonic on me! Aaargh!” Compare buzz.