locking
gerund of lock: the act by which something is locked.
Noun
- gerund of lock: the act by which something is locked.
- She had heard him, more than once, lock something up in one of the rooms—come out, and go into another room—wait there a few minutes—then return to the first room, with his keys in hand—and sharply turn the locks, and...
- The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der. Proto-Germanic *luką Proto-West Germanic *lok Old English loc Middle English lok English lock Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English locking From lock + -ing.
Forms
Verb
- present participle and gerund of lock
Derived
antilocking autolocking central door locking central locking double-checked locking letterlocking locking differential locking frame lockingly locking room mode locking multilocking mutual tidal locking nonlocking pseudolocking tidal locking