English Explanatory Dictionary

locking

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. gerund of lock: the act by which something is locked.
  2. The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of lock
name
  1. A village on the outskirts of Weston-super-Mare. Somerset, England
  2. A surname.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-locking.wav

Word forms

locking lockings

Etymology

From lock + -ing.

Derived words

mutual tidal locking antilocking autolocking central door locking central locking double-checked locking letterlocking locking differential locking frame lockingly locking room mode locking multilocking nonlocking pseudolocking tidal locking
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