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tickless en · ADJ

Etymology

From tick + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Lacking ticks (the insect).
    • Our suddenly tickless dog, now quite ticked-off, doesn't know who to kill first but by the time he rolls over, jaws snapping, the surgeons are practicing in the next county. 1994, Howard Bronson, Dog Gone: Coping with the Loss of a Pet, page 11:
  2. (not-comparable) Without a ticking sound.
    • Maybe with the new technology, they might have tickless bombs. They've had tickless clocks for years. And they even have seedless watermelons. So a tickless bomb should be routine. 2018, Maxwell Cooke, The Elderly Gentlemen's Mostly Legitimate Escort Association:
  3. (not-comparable) Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.
    • a tickless kernel; a tickless scheduler