A location where discontinued, abandoned, and retired codebases and projects are stored The graveyard preserves the information for posterity, reference, and potential future re-activation, while keeping it clearly distinct from active work
By extension, a final resting place for a collection of things that are no longer useful or useable
A graveyard is an area of land, sometimes near a church, where dead people are buried. They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead
disapproval If you call a place a graveyard of particular things, you mean that there are many broken or unwanted things of that kind there. This had once been the greatest port in the world, now it was a graveyard of rusting cranes
Where cards go when they are killed, used, discarded, or otherwise taken from active play Some cards will allow you to later bring cards back from the Graveyard Any player may, at any time, look through anyone's graveyard