Usually means: Automatic management of unused memory.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. garbage collection: Collins English Dictionary
  2. garbage collection: Vocabulary.com
  3. garbage-collection: Wordnik
  4. garbage collection: Wiktionary
  5. garbage collection: Dictionary.com
  6. Garbage collection (SSD), Garbage collection (computer science), Garbage collection (computing), Garbage collection (disambiguation), Garbage collection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. garbage collection: Rhymezone
  8. garbage collection: FreeDictionary.org
  9. garbage collection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. garbage collection: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. garbage collection: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. Garbage collection (disambiguation), garbage collection: Encyclopedia
  4. Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (garbage collection)

noun:  (Canada, US) A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.
noun:  (programming) An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.

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