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Meaning of Gil | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
ɡɪl

Definitions

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Gilbert.
  2. Initialism of global interpreter lock.

Equivalents

العربية جل
Français Gil
עברית גיל
Kurdî gîl
Português Gil

Examples

“Since Asyncio is single-threaded (almost by definition), it is unaffected by the GIL, but it cannot benefit from multiple CPU cores either.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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