ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Threadsafe

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Threadsafe is an adjective meaning (computing, programming) That can be safely accessed from multiple threads.

Meaning

(computing, programming) That can be safely accessed from multiple threads.

Example Sentences

SessionFactory objects are threadsafe, so it is not necessary to obtain one for each thread.
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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include threadable, multithreaded, memory-safe, synchronous, hyperthreaded, reentrant.

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