"working set" meaning in All languages combined

See working set on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: working sets [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛt Head templates: {{en-noun}} working set (plural working sets)
  1. (computing theory) The amount of memory required by a process in a given time interval.

Inflected forms

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