Garbage Collection

Definition: Garbage Collection

Garbage Collection

Noun

1. The collection and removal of garbage.

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Garbage collection (GC) The process by which dynamically allocated storage is reclaimed during the execution of a program. The term usually refers to automatic periodic storage reclamation by the garbage collector (part of the run-time system), as opposed to explicit code to free specific blocks of memory. Automatic garbage collection is usually triggered during memory allocation when the amount free memory falls below some threshold or after a certain number of allocations. Normal execution is suspended and the garbage collector is run. There are many variations on this basic scheme. Languages like Lisp represent expressions as graphs built from cells which contain pointers and data. These languages use automatic dynamic storage allocation to build expressions. During the evaluation of an expression it is necessary to reclaim space which is used by subexpressions but which is no longer pointed to by anything. This reclaimed memory is returned to the free memory pool for subsequent reallocation. Without garbage collection the program's memory requirements would increase monotonically throughout execution, possibly exceeding system limits on virtual memory size. The three main methods are mark-sweep garbage collection, reference counting and copying garbage collection. See also the AI koan about garbage collection. (1997-08-25). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Environment	Organised collecting and transport of waste; cf. municipal refuse collection, request for special collection. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Garbage Collection

Synonyms: garbage pickup (n), trash collection (n), trash pickup (n). (additional references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Fees paid for treated water and garbage collection, for example, are very low by international standards. (references)
Economic History	Bolivia	However, municipalities set the local rates for water and garbage collection. (references)
Political Economy	Uruguay	The coalition won the capital's municipal government for the first time in 1989 and was reelected in 1994 and 1999. During its administration of Montevideo, it has raised land and property taxes significantly and services such as garbage collection and parks and plazas maintenance have been given to private companies on a concession basis. (references)
Trade	Jamaica	Factory space is made available in modules of 6,000 sq. ft. including services (security, external lighting, maintenance of common areas, and garbage collection and disposal). (references)
Worker Rights	Peru	Other children reportedly are employed at times in dangerous occupations or in high-risk environments, such as informal gold mining, garbage collection, loading and unloading produce in markets, brick making, coca cultivation, or work in stone quarries and fireworks factories, among others. (references)
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Our citizens feel they have lost control of even the most basic decisions made about the essential services of government, such as schools, welfare, roads, and even garbage collection.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "garbage collection": copying garbage collection. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "garbage collection"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		sletning af irrelevante data (purging, removal of digital garbage, shuffling), indsamling af affald (collection, refuse collection, waste collection), hentning (collection, refuse collection, waste collection), bortskaffelse af affald (collection, refuse collection, waste collection), affaldsafhentning (collection, refuse collection, waste collection). (various references)

Dutch		opruimen (arrange, draw off, purge, purging, put in order, reaming, removal of digital garbage, shuffling, tidy, withdraw), inzameling van afval (collection, refuse collection, waste collection), inzameling (collecting, collection, refuse collection, waste collection), afvalverzameling (collection, garbage disposal, refuse collection, rubbish removal, waste collection, waste removal), afvalinzameling (collection, garbage disposal, refuse collection, rubbish removal, waste collection, waste removal). (various references)

Finnish		puhdistus (cleaning, cleansing, fining, plaining, purge, purging, purification, refining, removal of digital garbage, sanitation, shuffling), nouto (collection, fetch, refuse collection, waste collection), jätteennouto (collection, refuse collection, waste collection), jäännöstiedon poisto (purging, removal of digital garbage, shuffling). (various references)

French		regroupement de la place en mémoire (removal of digital garbage), récupération de place en mémoire (removal of digital garbage), nettoyage (removal of digital garbage), enlèvement des déchets, criblage (removal of digital garbage), collection des déchets (removal of digital garbage), collecte des déchets, évacuation des déchets numériques (removal of digital garbage). (various references)

German		Muellabfuhr (collection, refuse collection, waste collection), Mülleinsammeln (collection, refuse collection, waste collection), müllabfuhr (garbage collectionUS, garbage disposal, refuse collection, rubbish collection, rubbish removal, waste removal). (various references)

Greek		συλλογή απορριμμάτων (collection, refuse collection, waste collection), ξεκαθάρισμα (clear out, purging, removal of digital garbage, shuffling), ξεσκαρτάρισμα, απομάκρυνση ψηφιακών αχρήστων (purging, removal of digital garbage, shuffling). (various references)

Italian		raccolta dei rifiuti (collection, refuse collection, rubbish collection, waste collection). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ゴミ集積� � (eraser, gum, rubber, village garbage collection point). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ゴミしゅうせきじょう (village garbage collection point). (various references)

Pig Latin		arbagegay ollectioncay.(various references)

Portuguese		recuperação das posições inutilizadas (purging, removal of digital garbage, shuffling), recolha/colecta de detritos (collection, refuse collection, waste collection), recolha dos resíduos (collection, refuse collection, waste collection). (various references)

Spanish		recuperación de espacio inutilizado (purging, removal of digital garbage, shuffling), recogida de residuos (collection, refuse collection, waste collection), recogida de basuras (collection, disposal, refuse collection, waste collection), purgar (bleed, clear, drain, purge, purging, removal of digital garbage, scour, shuffling, vent). (various references)

Swedish		lumpsamling (purging, removal of digital garbage, shuffling), hämtning (collection, refuse collection, waste collection), avfallshämtning (collection, refuse collection, waste collection). (various references)

Turkish		çöp toplanması. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-e-e-g-g-i-l-l-n-o-o-r-t"
	-4 letters: collaborating.
	-5 letters: accelerating, acceleration, genealogical, geobotanical, necrological, oblanceolate, reallocating, reallocation, recollecting, recollection, reconcilable.
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