Threadsafe

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    That can be safely accessed from multiple threads. not-comparable

    "Only a few collection classes are threadsafe. As we'll see later, being threadsafe does not necessarily mean that you can safely use them in every multithreaded program."

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"Only a few collection classes are threadsafe. As we'll see later, being threadsafe does not necessarily mean that you can safely use them in every multithreaded program."

Etymology

From thread + safe.

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