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wake lock

wake lock is the alternative form of wakelock.

Meaning of wakelock

Noun

wakelock (plural wakelocks)

  1. A lock that can be acquired by software for the purpose of preventing the mobile device from going into a locked standby state during a particular operation.

Forms of wake lock

pluralwake locks

Questions about wake lock

What is wake lock the alternative form of?
Wake lock is the alternative form of wakelock.

Words near wake lock in the dictionary

  1. wake flow
  2. wake flows
  3. Wake Island
  4. Wake Islander
  5. Wake Islanders
  6. wake lock
  7. wake locks
  8. wake loss
  9. wake robin
  10. wake robins
  11. wake the dead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wake lock (page history and authors); wakelock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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