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Define the word gc

"Gc" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

Gc
     n : 1,000,000,000 periods per second [syn: gigahertz, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigacycle]

"gc" vera "Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)"

GC
     Global Catalog (MS, AD)

"GC" jargon "Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)"

GC /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1. vt. To clean up
   and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk
   today." When said of files, this is equivalent to GFR. 2. vt. To
   recycle, reclaim, or put to another use. 3. n. An instantiation of the
   garbage collector process.

   `Garbage collection' is computer-science techspeak for a particular
   class of strategies for dynamically but transparently reallocating
   computer memory (i.e., without requiring explicit allocation and
   deallocation by higher-level software). One such strategy involves
   periodically scanning all the data in memory and determining what is no
   longer accessible; useless data items are then discarded so that the
   memory they occupy can be recycled and used for another purpose.
   Implementations of the LISP language usually use garbage collection.

   In jargon, the full phrase is sometimes heard but the abbrev GC is
   more frequently used because it is shorter. Note that there is an
   ambiguity in usage that has to be resolved by context: "I'm going to
   garbage-collect my desk" usually means to clean out the drawers, but it
   could also mean to throw away or recycle the desk itself.

"gc" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"

GC
     
        1. garbage collection.
     
        2. A storage allocator with garbage collection by
        Hans-J. Boehm and Alan J. Demers.  Gc is a plug-in replacement
        for C's malloc.  Since the collector does not require
        pointers to be tagged, it does not attempt to ensure that
        all inaccessible storage is reclaimed.
     
        Version 3.4 has been ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, Vax/BSD,
        Ultrix, Intel 80386/Unix, SGI, Alpha/OSF/1,
        Sequent (single threaded), Encore (single threaded),
        RS/600, HP-UX, Sony News, A/UX, Amiga, NeXT.
     
        (ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/russell/gc3.4.tar.Z).
     
        (2000-04-19)