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How to pronounce “locking”
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Pronunciation guide for locking
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of locking with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Boaz Almog "levitates" a superconductor 10 minutes, 26 seconds
is called quantum levitation and quantum locking.
- Definition summary
- gerund of lock: the act by which something is locked.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce locking
Boaz Almog "levitates" a superconductor 10 minutes, 26 seconds

is called quantum levitation and quantum locking.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “locking”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- gerund of lock: the act by which something is locked.
- (computing) The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of lock
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