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antideadlock en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + deadlock.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Preventing deadlock.
    • The judge gave them antideadlock instructions, reminding them of the reasonable doubt standard that the State must satisfy and encouraging them to try to arrive at a verdict. 2011, Brandon Garrett, Convicting the Innocent, page 174:
    • By the way, this antideadlock behavior of the synchronized keyword is not necessarily a good thing. When a thread encounters a runtime exception while it is holding a lock, there's the possibility—indeed, the expectation—that it will leave the data it was manipulating in an inconsistent state. 2004, Scott Oaks, Henry Wong, Java Threads: