starvations

Noun

starvation (countable and uncountable, plural starvations)

1. A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
   • "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits...1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor...

   Synonyms:

   inanition

2. (figuratively) Severe shortage of resources.
   • Fuel starvation has several causes.1963 February, “Diesel locomotive faults and their remedies”, in Modern Railways, page 99
3. A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.
   • Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.2004, Scott Oaks, Henry Wong, Java Threads, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 138