tickless
English
Adjective
tickless (not comparable)
- 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.
- 1994, Howard Bronson, Dog Gone: Coping with the Loss of a Pet (page 11)
- 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.
- 2018, Maxwell Cooke, The Elderly Gentlemen's Mostly Legitimate Escort Association
- (computing) Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.
- a tickless kernel; a tickless scheduler
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