garbage collection
/G AA1 R B IH0 JH K AH0 L EH1 K SH AH0 N/noun
- 1
A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.
- 2
An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.
“Garbage collection isn’t foolproof, but it eliminates large classes of memory errors.”
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