LekhoriLekhoriMagnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious.
The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators.
Gradual and non-disruptive.
Bringing a system down cleanly will preserve the operating system and some log files, but again will destroy the contents of the RAM (the volatile data). Windows and Linux are two operating systems that require a graceful shutdown.
From Middle English graceful. By surface analysis, grace + -ful.
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