garbage collection

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Noun

garbage collection (uncountable)

1. (North America) A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.
2. (programming) An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.

   Garbage collection isn’t foolproof, but it eliminates large classes of memory errors.

Synonyms

• rubbish collection

Related terms

• garbage collect
• garbage collector
• GC

Translations

• German: Müllabfuhr
• Italian: nettezza urbana
• Russian: убо́рка му́сора

Translations

• French: ramasse-miettes
• German: Freispeichersammlung, automatische Speicherbereinigung
• Russian: сбо́рка му́сора

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