ALL meanings of deadlock
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D d - variable noun deadlock If a dispute or series of negotiations reaches deadlock, neither side is willing to give in at all and no agreement can be made. 4
- noun deadlock a state of affairs in which further action between two opposing forces is impossible; stalemate 3
- noun deadlock a tie between opposite sides in a contest 3
- noun deadlock a lock having a bolt that can be opened only with a key 3
- verb deadlock to bring or come to a deadlock 3
- noun deadlock a standstill resulting from the action of equal and opposed forces; stalemate 3
- noun deadlock a tie between opponents in the course of a contest 3
- abbreviation DEADLOCK deadbolt 3
- noun deadlock A situation, typically one involving opposing parties, in which no progress can be made. 1
- noun Definition of deadlock in Technology (parallel, programming) A situation where two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something. A common example is a program waiting for output from a server while the server is waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything. It is reported that this particular flavour of deadlock is sometimes called a "starvation deadlock", though the term "starvation" is more properly used for situations where a program can never run simply because it never gets high enough priority. Another common flavour is "constipation", in which each process is trying to send stuff to the other but all buffers are full because nobody is reading anything). See deadly embrace. Another example, common in database programming, is two processes that are sharing some resource (e.g. read access to a table) but then both decide to wait for exclusive (e.g. write) access. The term "deadly embrace" is mostly synonymous, though usually used only when exactly two processes are involved. This is the more popular term in Europe, while deadlock predominates in the United States. Compare: livelock. See also safety property, liveness property. 1
- noun deadlock a state in which progress is impossible, as in a dispute, produced by the counteraction of opposing forces; standstill; stalemate: The union and management reached a deadlock over fringe benefits. 1
- abbreviation DEADLOCK deadbolt. 1
- noun deadlock a maximum-security cell for the solitary confinement of a prisoner. 1
- noun deadlock standstill 1
- transitive verb deadlock halt progress of 1
- noun deadlock A standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; a stalemate or impasse. 0
- noun deadlock (computing) An inability to continue due to two programs or devices each requiring a response from the other before completing an operation. 0
- verb deadlock to cause or to come to a deadlock. 0