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lock-free

lock-free adjective: not requiring the acquisition of a mutex (or other kind of) lock for synchronizing with other threads.

Adjective

lock-free (not comparable)

  1. Not requiring the acquisition of a mutex (or other kind of) lock for synchronizing with other threads.

Questions about lock-free

What does lock-free mean?
Lock-free means not requiring the acquisition of a mutex (or other kind of) lock for synchronizing with other threads.
What part of speech is lock-free?
Lock-free is an adjective.

Words near lock-free in the dictionary

  1. lock up
  2. lock'd
  3. lock, stock and barrel
  4. lock-down
  5. lock-downs
  6. lock-free
  7. lock-in
  8. lock-ins
  9. lock-off
  10. lock-offs
  11. lock-on

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