locking

noun

1. (form-of, gerund)gerund of lock: the act by which something is locked.
2. The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of lock

name

1. A village on the outskirts of Weston-super-Mare. Somerset, England
2. A surname.