Memory leak
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A memory leak occurs when a computer program is allocated memory which it later does not free. For example, an application may instantiate an object but never properly destroy it, leaving a segment of memory in use even though it's not actually needed any longer.
High-level programming languages often abstract memory allocation for a programmer, helping avoid human mistakes that cause memory leaks.
