semafori — meaning in English
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English meaning
- semaphore noun Equipment used to send visual signals, such as flags, lights, or moving arms, that stand for letters or words.
Senses
semafori is used for these senses in English:
- semaphore (programming) A bit, token, fragment of code, or some other mechanism which is used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process at a time, or to synchronize and coordinate events in different processes.
semaphore — full definition
- noun Equipment used to send visual signals, such as flags, lights, or moving arms, that stand for letters or words.
- noun A system of sending messages by holding two flags in set positions, one in each hand, to spell out letters and numbers.
- noun In computing, a mechanism that controls access to a shared resource so that only one process can use it at a time.
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