tickless

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English

Etymology

From tick +‎ -less.

Adjective

tickless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking ticks (the insect).
    • 1994, Howard Bronson, Dog Gone: Coping with the Loss of a Pet, page 11:
      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.
  2. Without a ticking sound.
    • 2018, Maxwell Cooke, The Elderly Gentlemen's Mostly Legitimate Escort Association:
      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.
  3. (computing) Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.
    a tickless kernel; a tickless scheduler

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