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critical section

critical section noun: a piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.

Noun

critical section (plural critical sections)

  1. A piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.
    • The instructions between a lock and an unlock form a critical section.2011, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Shaz Qadeer, Computer Aided Verification: 23rd International Conference

Forms of critical section

pluralcritical sections

Questions about critical section

What does critical section mean?
Critical section means a piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.
What part of speech is critical section?
Critical section is a noun.
What is the plural of critical section?
The plural of critical section is critical sections.

Words near critical section in the dictionary

  1. critical rationalism
  2. critical reception
  3. critical receptions
  4. critical Reynolds number
  5. critical Reynolds numbers
  6. critical section
  7. critical sections
  8. critical success factor
  9. critical success factors
  10. critical support
  11. critical taper

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