mutual exclusion

collocation in English

meaningsofmutualandexclusion

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mutual
adjective
uk
/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/us
/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/
(of two or more people or groups) feeling the same emotion, or doing the same thing to or for ...
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exclusion
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪkˈskluː.ʒən/us
/ɪkˈskluː.ʒən/
the act of not allowing someone or something to take part in an activity or to enter ...
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Examplesofmutual exclusion

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A society can be defined as a pattern of mutual tolerance, surviving after the dynamism ofmutualexclusionhas been temporarily exhausted.
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The data consistency is realized by usingmutualexclusion.
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This causes a violation ofmutualexclusionwhen different processes are allowed to concurrently access a given resource by different monitors.
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We have also proposed a set of axioms statingmutualexclusion.
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This is extremely useful formutualexclusionof the processes having access to a set of shared data.
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There is a hidden assumption of excluded middle, ormutualexclusionas it is more usually called for concurrent processes.
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In practice, themutualexclusionmethod is widely used.
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Mutualexclusionis enforced by providing each resource with a semaphore.
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The sequencer may take an unbounded time to arbitrate, but it is required to realise themutualexclusionof the two grant signals.
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The node agent is also in charge of managing the access to a resource (mutualexclusion).
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The arithmetic component is novel and aims at using arithmetic predicates to detectmutualexclusionbetween clauses.
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Two important features of semaphores make them the ideal candidates for the means of synchronization for data dependency and data consistency (mutualexclusion).
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A natural name for the latter is atomicmutualexclusion.
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All shared objects aremutualexclusionin this section.
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The following example defines a simple reactive system where a set of user processes interact with a binary semaphore which providesmutualexclusionin the access to a critical region.
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Shared frames are accessed inmutualexclusion.
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