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tickless

tickless adjective: lacking ticks (the insect).

Adjective

tickless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking ticks (the insect).
    • Our suddenly tickless dog, now quite ticked-off, doesn't know who to kill first but by the time he rolls over, jaws snapping, the surgeons are practicing in the next county.1994, Howard Bronson, Dog Gone: Coping with the Loss of a Pet, page 11
  2. Without a ticking sound.
    • Maybe with the new technology, they might have tickless bombs. They've had tickless clocks for years. And they even have seedless watermelons. So a tickless bomb should be routine.2018, Maxwell Cooke, The Elderly Gentlemen's Mostly Legitimate Escort Association
  3. Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.
    • a tickless kernel; a tickless scheduler

Origin of tickless

From tick + -less.

Questions about tickless

What does tickless mean?
Tickless means lacking ticks (the insect).
What part of speech is tickless?
Tickless is an adjective.

Words near tickless in the dictionary

  1. tickles the ivories
  2. tickles the ivory
  3. tickles the wire
  4. ticklesome
  5. ticklesomeness
  6. tickless
  7. ticklest
  8. tickleth
  9. ticklier
  10. tickliest
  11. tickliness

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