Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

critical section

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English

Syllables: crit-i-cal -sec-tion
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.

Example Sentences

"The instructions between a lock and an unlock form a critical section."

Inflected Forms

critical sections (plural)

Questions

What does critical section mean?: A piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.

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