allocate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Medieval Latin allocāte, imperative of Latin allocāre, from ad- (“to”) + locus (“place”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈæl.ə.keɪt/, enPR: ăl'ə-kāt
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editallocate (third-person singular simple present allocates, present participle allocating, simple past and past participle allocated)
- To set aside for a purpose.
- Synonyms: appropriate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- Please do not eat the meringue, as it is allocated for the dinner party tomorrow.
- 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:
- By March 1994, it had moved to Cardiff Canton, and was still allocated there when its nameplates were taken off in March 1997.
- To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.
- The bulk of K–12 education funds are allocated to school districts that in turn pay for the cost of operating schools.
- (computing) To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
- Antonyms: free, deallocate
- 2011, José M. Garrido, Richard Schlesinger, Kenneth Hoganson, Principles of Modern Operating Systems, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 264:
- The memory manager allocates memory to requesting processes until there is no more memory available or until there are no more processes waiting for memory.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editto set aside for a purpose
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to distribute according to a plan
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computing: to reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program
References
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “allocate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editallocate
- inflection of allocare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editallocate f pl
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editallocāte
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