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brain dump n.
[common] The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system [core dump] in that it saves a lot of useful [state] before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." See [core dump] (sense 4). At Sun, this is also known as `TOI' (transfer of information).