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Lockin vs Locking - What's the difference?

lockin | locking |

As nouns the difference between lockin and locking

is that lockin is an alternative spelling of lock in while locking is the act by which something is locked.

As a verb locking is

present participle of lang=en.

lockin

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • locking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is locked.
  • * 1862 , Wilkie Collins, No Name
    • On the other hand, it was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence...
  • (computing) Using a lock or a mutex to restrict the access to a part of a code to at most one process.

    • Derived terms

    * double-checked locking