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Examples of locking

locking

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Moreover, reference counts permit the following trick to avoid locking when a node is freed.
The above theorem asserts that the frequency locking persists under a white noise which could be very large.
The functional information is generic to each subsystem (lighting, central locking, etc.), and so can be reused from model year to model year.
Ideas and their political advocacy do not simply serve as constraints in the welfare restructuring process, buttressing the status quo and locking-in popular welfare institutions.
To activate the locking mechanism, the female part must turn 90 clockwise with compressive force.
On a system of hyperstable frequency locking persistence under white noise.
The performance of the measurement system is examined by locking the joint and deflecting the end-point in fixed increments.
For there may exist mechanisms that produce a locking of all relevant length scales into fixed ratios, leaving effectively only one length scale.
It is noteworthy that the control of phase locking has progressed, comparing to the controlling of 0.028 l in the case of self-phase-locking.
It shows that there is something missing for phase locking.
This result confirms the experimental result (8) for the width of the locking region when is sufficiently large.
Segmentation of connected image based on phase locking.
Industry had invested significant amounts of time and money developing technologies (for example, long pipes and tall chimneys) to implement them, locking them into place.
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