garbage collection

English

Noun

garbage collection (usually uncountable; plural garbage collections)

1. A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.
2. (programming) A mechanism which ensures that resources no longer in use are made available for reuse.

   Automatic garbage collection isn’t foolproof, but it eliminates large classes of memory errors.

3. (programming) Automatic garbage collection.

Related terms

• garbage collect
• garbage collector
• GC

Translations

a service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility

• German: Müllabfuhr (de) f
• Greek: αποκομιδή απορριμμάτων (el) (apokomidí aporrimmáton) f, συλλογή απορριμμάτων (el) (syllogí aporrimmáton) f

• Icelandic: sorphreinsun (is) f
• Italian: nettezza urbana (it)
• Turkish: çöp toplama (tr)

(programming) a mechanism which ensures that resources no longer in use are made available for reuse

• Finnish: roskankeruu (fi), roskienkeräys (fi)
• German: Freispeichersammlung (de) f, automatische Speicherbereinigung (de) f

• Icelandic: ruslasöfnun (is) f, ruslsöfnun (is) f, ruslsópun (is) f
• Turkish: çöp toplama (tr)

(programming) automatic garbage collection

• German: Freispeichersammlung (de) f, automatische Speicherbereinigung (de) f

• Turkish: çöp toplama (tr)