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garbage-collector

garbage-collector is the alternative form of garbage collector.

Meaning of garbage collector

Noun

garbage collector (plural garbage collectors)

  1. (Canada, US) A worker who removes refuse, especially from properties.
    • the mayor of Maycomb asked us to please help the garbage collector by dumping our own trees and trash.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    bin man
  2. An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.
    • Java uses a technique known as garbage collection to remove objects that are no longer needed. The garbage collector is Java's grim reaper.2002, Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, Learning Java, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 135

Forms of garbage-collector

pluralgarbage-collectors

Questions about garbage-collector

What is garbage-collector the alternative form of?
Garbage-collector is the alternative form of garbage collector.

Words near garbage-collector in the dictionary

  1. garbage truck
  2. garbage trucks
  3. garbage woman
  4. garbage women
  5. garbage-collected
  6. garbage-collector
  7. garbage-collectors
  8. garbaged
  9. garbageless
  10. garbagelike
  11. garbageman

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