Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

interprocess communication

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English

Syllables: in-ter-pro-cess -com-mu-ni-ca-tion
IPA

37

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

9

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A set of techniques for the exchange of data among two or more threads in one or more processes.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"FreeBSD provides a rich set of interprocess-communication facilities intended to support the construction of distributed programs built on top of communications primitives."

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

interprocess communications (plural) inter-process communication (alternative)

Synonyms

IPC

Questions

What does interprocess communication mean?: A set of techniques for the exchange of data among two or more threads in one or more processes.

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