Locking

Verb

1. Present participle of lock

Full definition of locking

Noun

1. The act by which something is locked.
• 1862, Wilkie Collins, No NameOn 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...
2. (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