As verbs the difference between fastening and locking
is that
fastening is present participle of
to fasten while
locking is .
As nouns the difference between fastening and locking
is that
fastening is a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together while
locking is the act by which something is locked.
fastening English
Verb
(head)
Present participle of to fasten.
Noun
( en noun)
a hook or similar restraint used to fasten things together
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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
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