allocate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin allocāte, imperative of Latin allocāre, from ad- (“to”) + locus (“place”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
allocate (third-person singular simple present allocates, present participle allocating, simple past and past participle allocated)
- To set aside for a purpose.
- Synonyms: appropriate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- Please do not eat the meringue, as it is allocated for the dinner party tomorrow.
- To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.
- The bulk of K–12 education funds are allocated to school districts that in turn pay for the cost of operating schools.
- (computing) To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
- Antonyms: free, deallocate
- 2011, José M. Garrido; Richard Schlesinger; Kenneth Hoganson, Principles of Modern Operating Systems, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 264:
- The memory manager allocates memory to requesting processes until there is no more memory available or until there are no more processes waiting for memory.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to set aside for a purpose
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to distribute according to a plan
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computing: to reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program
References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “allocate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
allocate
- inflection of allocare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
allocate f pl
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
allocāte
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