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Added 10 October 2026

locking

noun

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gerund of lock: the act by which something is locked.
The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
A style of funk dance that involves sudden freezing in a fixed position between moves.

verb

present participle and gerund of lock

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