garbage collection

English

Noun

garbage collection (usually uncountable, plural garbage collections)

1. (Canada, US) A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.

   Synonym: rubbish collection

2. (programming) An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.

   Synonym: GC

   • [2002, Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, Learning Java, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 135:

     Java uses a technique known as garbage collection to remove objects that are no longer needed. The garbage collector is Java's grim reaper.]

   • 2016, Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss, The Garbage Collection Handbook‎^[1], CRC Press, →ISBN:

     Generational garbage collection has proved to be a highly effective organisation, offering significant performance improvements for a wide range of applications.

Derived terms

• GC

Related terms

• garbage collect
• garbage collector

Translations

service for transporting household garbage

• Dutch: vuilnisophaling f
• Finnish: jätteiden keräily
• German: Müllabfuhr (de) f
• Greek: αποκομιδή απορριμμάτων f (apokomidí aporrimmáton), συλλογή απορριμμάτων f (syllogí aporrimmáton)
• Hungarian: hulladékszállítás (hu)
• Icelandic: sorphreinsun f
• Irish: bailiú bruscair m
• Italian: nettezza urbana
• Japanese: ごみ回収 (gomi kaishū), ごみ収集 (gomi shūshū)
• Russian: убо́рка му́сора (ru) f (ubórka músora)
• Swedish: sophämtning (sv) c
• Turkish: çöp toplama

programming

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 垃圾回收 (zh) (lājī huíshōu, lèsè huíshōu)

• Finnish: roskankeruu (fi), roskienkeräys, automaattinen roskienkeräys
• French: ramasse-miettes (fr) m
• German: Freispeichersammlung f, automatische Speicherbereinigung f
• Greek: συλλογή απορριμάτων (el) n (syllogí aporrimáton)
• Icelandic: ruslasöfnun f, ruslsöfnun f, ruslsópun f
• Japanese: ガーベジコレクション (gābeji korekushon)
• Russian: сбо́рка му́сора f (sbórka músora)
• Swedish: skräpsamlare c
• Turkish: çöp toplama