Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

goroutine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gor-ou-tine
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A lightweight communicating process in the Go programming language.

Example Sentences

"Exercise 14.8: Starting from the Fibonacci-program in Listing 6.10, make a solution which isolates the calculation of the Fibonacci-terms in a goroutine, which sends these results on a channel. Close the channel when finished."

Etymology

From Go (“programming language”) + routine, to rhyme with coroutine.

Inflected Forms

goroutines (plural)

Questions

What does goroutine mean?: A lightweight communicating process in the Go programming language.
Where does goroutine come from?: From Go (“programming language”) + routine, to rhyme with coroutine.

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