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BitLocking

BitLocking is the present participle and gerund 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 BitLocking

What is BitLocking the present participle and gerund of?
BitLocking is the present participle and gerund of BitLock.

Words near BitLocking in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BitLocking (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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