Panic

n.	1.	(Bot.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass. Panic grass (Bot.) any grass of the genus Panicum.
a.	1.	Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; - said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.
n.	1.	A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
	2.	By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.

Noun	1.	panic - an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety Synonyms: terror
	2.	panic - sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building" Synonyms: scare
Verb	1.	panic - be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"
	2.	panic - cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"

1.	(operating system)	panic - What Unix does when a critical internal consistency checks fails in such a way that Unix cannot continue. The kernel attempts to print a short message on the console and write an image of memory into the swap area on disk. This can be analysed later using adb. The kernel will then either wait in a tight loop until the machine is rebooted or will initiate an automatic reboot. Unix manual page: panic(8).
2.		panic - Action taken by software which discovers some fatal problem which prevents it from continuing to run.

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