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1 definition found From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: go flatline v. [from cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] (also adjectival flatlined). 1. To die, terminate, or fail, esp. irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. ?You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline.? 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.