locking

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(gerund of): the act by which something is locked.
(RQ:Collins No Name) 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, and which tormented him with a sense of oppression, new to the experience of his later years.
The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
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