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garbage collection
A process for automatic recovery of heap memory. Blocks of memory that had been allocated but are no longer in use are freed, and blocks of memory still in use may be moved to consolidate the free memory into larger blocks.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Computer
- Category: Operating systems
- Company: Microsoft
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