gc
/ˌdʒiː ˈsiː/
noun
- Short for 'garbage collection' in computing, the automatic process of freeing up memory that is no longer being used by a program.
- Too much gc can slow down your application's performance.
- The Java virtual machine runs gc periodically to clean up unused objects.
- Programmers can manually trigger gc to free memory immediately.
- Short for 'general counsel', the chief lawyer of a company or organization.
- She was promoted to gc after ten years in the legal department.
- Our gc advised us to settle the lawsuit out of court.
- The gc reviewed the contract before the company signed it.
- Short for 'gigacycle', an older term for gigahertz (GHz), a unit of frequency equal to one billion cycles per second.
- The radio transmitter operates at 2.4 gc.
- A gc is the same as a gigahertz in modern usage.
- Old computer manuals sometimes list processor speed in gc.
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