tickless
adjEtymology From tick + -less.
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Lacking ticks (the insect).
- Our suddenly tickless dog, now quite ticked-off, doesn't know who to kill first but by the time he rolls over, jaws snapping, the surgeons are practicing in the next county.1994, Howard Bronson, Dog Gone: Coping with the Loss of a Pet, page 11:
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Without a ticking sound.
- Maybe with the new technology, they might have tickless bombs. They've had tickless clocks for years. And they even have seedless watermelons. So a tickless bomb should be routine.2018, Maxwell Cooke, The Elderly Gentlemen's Mostly Legitimate Escort Association:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.
- a tickless kernel; a tickless scheduler