Usually means: Controlled access through mechanical device.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word locking:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. locking: Merriam-Webster
  2. locking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. locking: Collins English Dictionary
  4. locking: Vocabulary.com
  5. Locking, locking: Wordnik
  6. locking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Locking, locking: Wiktionary
  8. Locking, locking: Dictionary.com
  9. locking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Locking (computer science), Locking (dance), Locking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Locking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. locking: Rhymezone
  13. Locking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. locking: FreeDictionary.org
  15. locking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. locking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. locking: Legal dictionary
  2. locking: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. locking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. locking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. locking: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. locking: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See lock as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Locking)

noun:  (computing) The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
noun:  A village on the outskirts of Weston-super-Mare. Somerset, England
noun:  A surname.

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