English Explanatory Dictionary

liveness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The property of being alive.
  2. A set of properties of a concurrent system that require the system to make progress despite the fact that its concurrently executing processes may have to take turns in critical sections.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

liveness livenesses

Etymology

From live + -ness.

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