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sticky bits

sticky bits is the plural of sticky bit.

Meaning of sticky bit

Noun

sticky bit (plural sticky bits)

  1. A fault in a digital circuit, where a signal does not change as expected, but remains always in one state.
  2. A flag applied to an inode, formerly indicating that an executable program should be kept in memory after it terminates, but on modern systems used to determine which users can rename or delete the files in a directory.

Questions about sticky bits

What is sticky bits the plural of?
Sticky bits is the plural of sticky bit.

Words near sticky bits in the dictionary

  1. sticky beak
  2. sticky beaked
  3. sticky beaking
  4. sticky beaks
  5. sticky bit
  6. sticky bits
  7. sticky bomb
  8. sticky bombs
  9. sticky bottle
  10. sticky bottles
  11. sticky bun

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