garbage collection
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garbage collection (usually uncountable, plural garbage collections)
- (Canada, US) A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.
- Synonym: rubbish collection
- (programming) An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.
- Synonym: GC
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service for transporting household garbage
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programming
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