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語源

tick +‎ -less

形容詞

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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