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livelocks

Syllables: live·locks

livelocks is the plural of livelock.

livelocks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of livelock.

Meaning of livelock

Noun

livelock (countable and uncountable, plural livelocks)

  1. A state resembling deadlock in which various computational processes are constantly changing but never reach a point where any of them can proceed.
    • However, this can lead to livelock—the optimistic analog of indefinite blocking in which methods continuously spin without making any further progress.2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 193

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Questions about livelocks

What is livelocks the plural of?
Livelocks is the plural of livelock.

Words near livelocks in the dictionary

  1. liveliness
  2. livelinesses
  3. livelock
  4. livelocked
  5. livelocking
  6. livelocks
  7. livelod
  8. livelode
  9. livelodes
  10. livelods
  11. livelong

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