Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

threadsafe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: thread-safe
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That can be safely accessed from multiple threads.

Example Sentences

"Only a few collection classes are threadsafe. As we'll see later, being threadsafe does not necessarily mean that you can safely use them in every multithreaded program."
"SessionFactory objects are threadsafe, so it is not necessary to obtain one for each thread."

Etymology

From thread + safe.

Inflected Forms

thread-safe (alternative)

Questions

What does threadsafe mean?: That can be safely accessed from multiple threads.
Where does threadsafe come from?: From thread + safe.

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