deadlock
Syllables: dead·lockUK/ˈdɛdˌlɒk//ˈdɛdˌlɑk/
deadlock noun: a standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; a stalemate or impasse.
Noun
deadlock (countable and uncountable, plural deadlocks)
- A standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; a stalemate or impasse.
- The negotiation ended in deadlock, with neither party willing to compromise on the price.
- An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation.
- If synchronization is always performed in least-first order with respect to object tags, then situations can never arise in which one thread has the synchronization lock for x while waiting for y and another has the lock for y while waiting for x. Instead, they will both obtain the locks in the...2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 88
- Synonym of deadbolt (“type of lock”).
- Synonyms:
- deadbolt
Verb
deadlock (third-person singular simple present deadlocks, present participle deadlocking, simple past and past participle deadlocked)
- To cause or come to a deadlock.
- A suspect was arrested on November 30 and charged with attempted murder. The evidence against him consisted of two jailhouse informers and an eyewitness who picked him out of a lineup after having identified a different man in an initial photo array. A jury ultimately convicted the suspect of...2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 6, in Illusion of Order
- To bring to a state of deadlock.
- Since we cannot solve this problem completely, it may sometimes be better to use explicit locks and risk deadlock if a thread exits unexpectedly. It may be better to have a deadlocked system than to have a corrupted system.2004, Scott Oaks, Henry Wong, Java Threads, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 123
deadlock meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
deadlock in Tamil
- முடக்கம், முட்டுக் கட்டை, தம்பனம்
deadlock in Urdu
- جمود, تعطل
deadlock in Bengali
- অচলাবস্থা, স্থবিরতা, প্যাট, ডেডলক, মৃত্যুতালা
deadlock in Telugu
- డెడ్లాక్
More languagesFewer languages
- deadlock in Malayalam
- കീറാമുട്ടി, തടസ്സം, തൊഴിൽ സ്തംഭനം
- deadlock in Kannada
- ಬಿಕ್ಕಟ್ಟು, ಸ್ಥಗಿತತೆ, ಒಪ್ಪಂದಕ್ಕೆ ಬರಲಾರದ ಸ್ಥಿತಿ
- deadlock in Punjabi
- ਡੈੱਡਲੌਕ, ਡੈੱਡਲਾਕ, ਡੈਡਲੌਕ
- deadlock in Gujarati
- ડેડલોક
Examples of deadlock in a sentence
- Instead, they will both obtain the locks in the same order, thus avoiding this form of deadlock.2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 88:
- A jury ultimately convicted the suspect of assault after deadlocking twice in three days of deliberation.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 6, in Illusion of Order:
Synonyms of deadlock
Forms of deadlock
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | deadlocks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | deadlocks |
| present participle | deadlocking |
| past participle | deadlocked |
| past | deadlocked |
Origin of deadlock
From dead + lock.
Words formed from deadlock
Phrases with deadlock
Questions about deadlock
- What does deadlock mean?
- Deadlock means a standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; a stalemate or impasse.
- What is deadlock in Tamil?
- Deadlock in Tamil is முடக்கம், முட்டுக் கட்டை, தம்பனம். See Deadlock meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use deadlock in a sentence?
- Instead, they will both obtain the locks in the same order, thus avoiding this form of deadlock.
- What part of speech is deadlock?
- Deadlock can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce deadlock?
- Deadlock is pronounced /ˈdɛdˌlɒk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of deadlock?
- The plural of deadlock is deadlocks.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: deadlock (page history and authors); deadlock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deadlock (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deadlock (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deadlock (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deadlock (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deadlock (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deadlock (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deadlock (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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