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garbage collections

garbage collections is the plural of garbage collection.

Meaning of garbage collection

Noun

garbage collection (usually uncountable, plural garbage collections)

  1. (Canada, US, usually) A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.
    Synonyms:
    rubbish collection
  2. (usually) An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that 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
    Synonyms:
    GC

Questions about garbage collections

What is garbage collections the plural of?
Garbage collections is the plural of garbage collection.

Words near garbage collections in the dictionary

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

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