garbage collection

English

Noun

garbage collection (usually uncountable, plural garbage collections)

1. (Canada, US) A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.
2. (programming) An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.

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

Synonyms

• rubbish collection

Related terms

• garbage collect
• garbage collector
• GC

Translations

service for transporting household garbage

• Finnish: jätteiden keräily
• German: Müllabfuhr (de) f
• Greek: αποκομιδή απορριμμάτων f (apokomidí aporrimmáton), συλλογή απορριμμάτων f (syllogí aporrimmáton)
• Icelandic: sorphreinsun f
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• Italian: nettezza urbana
• Japanese: ごみ回収 (gomi kaishū), ごみ収集 (gomi shūshū)
• Russian: убо́рка му́сора (ru) f (ubórka músora)
• Turkish: çöp toplama

programming

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 垃圾回收 (lājī huíshōu, lèsè huíshōu)

• Finnish: roskankeruu (fi), roskienkeräys, automaattinen roskienkeräys
• French: ramasse-miettes (fr) m
• German: Freispeichersammlung f, automatische Speicherbereinigung f
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• Icelandic: ruslasöfnun f, ruslsöfnun f, ruslsópun f
• Japanese: ガーベジコレクション (gābeji korekushon)
• Russian: сбо́рка му́сора f (sbórka músora)
• Turkish: çöp toplama