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Part of the Business terms glossary: A brain dump (sometimes spelled braindump, or brain-dump) is a complete transfer of accessible knowledge about a particular subject from your brain to some other storage medium, such as paper or your computer's hard drive.
1 In computing, the phrase describes the taking of a snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes. 2  Thus, the copying of any dataset might be called a 'brain dump' if its contents could be colloquially referred to as a 'brain'.