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  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.
       
          Sun-3,+Sun-4,+Vax/{BSD" rel="nofollow">Version 3.4 has been ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, Vax/{BSD,
          Ultrix,+Intel+80386/{Unix" rel="nofollow">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)" rel="nofollow">(ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/russell/gc3.4.tar.Z).
       
          (2000-04-19)
       
       

  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
       Global Catalog (MS, AD)
       
       

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

  gc
     n.
     (lb en internet) (init of en group chat)
     Sandawe letter
     (Latn-def sad letter indef=a)

  gC
     Irish letter
     (ng: A digraph in Irish orthography)

  Gc
     Xhosa letter
     (ng: A digraph in Xhosa orthography.)

  GC
     Spanish n.
     (lb es medicine) (initialism of es gasto cardíaco)
     Translingual sym.
     (SI-unit-abb giga coulomb electric charge)
     Translingual sym.
     (ISO 3166 1 2 inr=1 GCC Patent Office Gulf Cooperation Council Patent
  Office)

  gc
     n.
     (lb en internet) (init of en group chat)

  GC
     a.
     (initialism of en gender-critical)
     n.
     1 (initialism of en gas chromatography)
     2 (lb en anatomy) (initialism of en germinal center)
     3 (lb en cycling) (initialism of en general classification)
     4 (lb en AU film classification dated) (initialism of en general
  classification)
     5 (lb en programming)
     6 # (initialism of en garbage collection)
     7 # (initialism of en garbage collector)
     8 (initialism of en good condition)
     9 (lb en hormone) (initialism of en glucocorticoid)
     10 (lb en enzyme) (initialism of en guanylate cyclase)
     11 (lb en genetics molecular biology) (initialism of en
  guanine-cytosine)
     12 (lb en text messaging) (initialism of en group chat)
     13 (lb en informal) (initialism of en gender critical)
     n.
     1 (lb en astronomy) {init of|en|(w: General Catalogue of Nebulae and
  Clusters)}
     {init+of|en|(w:+Boss+General+Catalogue)" rel="nofollow">2 (lb en astronomy) {init of|en|(w: Boss General Catalogue)
     3 (lb en UK politics) {init of|en|(w Constituency Labour Party
  General Committee)|dot=:} the general management committee of a
  constituency party of the British
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour%20Party%20(UK).
     4 (lb en UK) (initialism of en George Cross dot=:) a medal presented
  to civilians and military personnel of the United Kingdom for actions
  which are not in the face of the enemy.
     5 (lb en video games) (w: Nintendo GameCube)
     6 (lb en education) (init of en w:Google Classroom)
     vb.
     (lb en programming) (init of en garbage collect)

  gc
     n.
     (lb en internet) (init of en group chat)

  gC
     Irish letter
     (ng: A digraph in Irish orthography)

  GC
     Spanish n.
     (lb es medicine) (initialism of es gasto cardíaco)
     Translingual sym.
     (SI-unit-abb giga coulomb electric charge)
     Translingual sym.
     (ISO 3166 1 2 inr=1 GCC Patent Office Gulf Cooperation Council Patent
  Office)

  gc
     n.
     (lb en internet) (init of en group chat)

  gC
     Irish letter
     (ng: A digraph in Irish orthography)

  GC
     Spanish n.
     (lb es medicine) (initialism of es gasto cardíaco)
     Translingual sym.
     (SI-unit-abb giga coulomb electric charge)
     Translingual sym.
     (ISO 3166 1 2 inr=1 GCC Patent Office Gulf Cooperation Council Patent
  Office)

  GC
     Englanti n.
     1 (yhteys ohjelmointi k=en) ''garbage collection'': roskienkeruu
     2 (yhteys: ohjelmointi) ''garbage collector'': roskienkerääjä

  GC
     Engelska abbr.
     1 (tagg kat=militärt språk=en) förkortning för
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgskorset, brittisk civil och militär
  utmärkelse
     2 (tagg kat=toponymer språk=en) förkortning för
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran%20Canaria, spansk ö bland
  Kanarieöarna
     3 (tagg kat=toponymer språk=en) förkortning för ökenlandskapet
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Canyon i USA

  GC
     abbr.
     (tagg: transport) ''förkortning av'' "gång och cykel"

  gas chromatography /ɡˈas kɹəʊmɐtˈɒɡɹəfi/ (GC /dʒˌiːsˈiː/)
  Gaschromatographie 
     Synonym: gas chromatographic analysis
  
   see: chromatography, column chromatography