threadsafe

English

Alternative forms
  • thread-safe

Etymology

thread +‎ safe

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Adjective

threadsafe (not comparable)

  1. (computing, programming) That can be safely accessed from multiple threads.
    • 2004, Scott Oaks; Henry Wong, Java threads:
      Only a few collection classes are threadsafe. As we'll see later, being threadsafe does not necessarily mean that you can safely use them in every multithreaded program.
    • 2006, Dave Minter; Jeff Linwood, Beginning Hibernate: From Novice to Professional:
      SessionFactory objects are threadsafe, so it is not necessary to obtain one for each thread.

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