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BitLocked

BitLocked is the simple past and past participle of BitLock.

Meaning of BitLock

Verb

BitLock (third-person singular simple present BitLocks, present participle BitLocking, simple past and past participle BitLocked)

  1. (transitive) To encrypt (something) using the BitLocker encryption software for Microsoft Windows.
    • If a laptop gets stolen but you have sensitive data on it... Now an admin can decide to BitLock the drives and you can start the system only when you have the chipcard as well. This works a level below the OS, so you canNOT just install another OS to read the disk, as it was with NTFS privileges.2008 December 4, Lysander, “Re: Windows Temp folder”, in dbase.programming (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Mar 2026

Questions about BitLocked

What is BitLocked the simple past and past participle of?
BitLocked is the simple past and past participle of BitLock.

Words near BitLocked in the dictionary

  1. bitlines
  2. bitling
  3. bitlings
  4. Bitlis
  5. BitLock
  6. BitLocked
  7. BitLocking
  8. BitLocks
  9. bitmap
  10. bitmapped
  11. bitmapping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BitLocked (page history and authors); BitLock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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