Garbage-collector Definition

noun
(programming) An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.
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(US, Canada) A sanitation engineer; a worker who removes refuse.

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Singular:
garbage-collector
Plural:
garbage-collectors

Garbage-collector Sentence Examples

  • In addition, the garbage collector must be able to move an object referred to by the native code.

  • Using the Garbage Collector as leak detector The garbage collector may be used as a leak detector.

  • With demand for these goods high, there is no reason to let the garbage collector take them.

  • Upon graduation, Stroud found employment in Toronto with Much Music, the Canadian equivalent of MTV, and moonlighted as a garbage collector.

  • The objects are then copied into it using a copying garbage collector.

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