garbage collect
verb1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To reclaim resources which are no longer in use; to run a garbage collector.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To destroy (an object that is no longer in use) during the process of garbage collection
- Synonyms
- GC
- Related terms
- garbage collection, garbage collector
- Hypernyms
- collect