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garbage collected

garbage collected adjective: featuring garbage collection. Also the simple past and past participle of garbage collect.

Adjective

garbage collected (not comparable)

  1. Featuring garbage collection.
    • Java is a garbage collected language.
  2. Suscepible to garbage collection.
    • You should use a garbage collected class here.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see garbage, collected.

Also used as

garbage collected is also the simple past and past participle of garbage collect.

Forms of garbage collected

alternative formgarbage-collected

Questions about garbage collected

What does garbage collected mean?
Garbage collected means featuring garbage collection.
What part of speech is garbage collected?
Garbage collected is an adjective.

Words near garbage collected in the dictionary

  1. garbage can
  2. garbage cans
  3. garbage chute
  4. garbage chutes
  5. garbage collect
  6. garbage collected
  7. garbage collection
  8. garbage collections
  9. garbage collector
  10. garbage collectors
  11. garbage day

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