tickless

Lacking ticks (the insect).

Adjective

  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...
  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...
  3. Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.
    • a tickless kernel; a tickless scheduler

Origin

From tick + -less.