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critical sections

critical sections is the plural of critical section.

Meaning of critical section

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

Questions about critical sections

What is critical sections the plural of?
Critical sections is the plural of critical section.

Words near critical sections in the dictionary

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

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