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locking

locking ‎(plural lockings)

The act by which something is locked.
- 1862, Wilkie Collins, No Name
  On the other hand, it was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence...
(computing) Using a lock or a mutex to restrict the access to a part of a code to at most one process.