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- not comparableLacking ticks (the insect).
Our suddenly tickless dog, now quite ticked-off, doesn't know who to kill first but by the time he rolls over, jaws snapping, the surgeons are practicing in the next county.
1994, Howard Bronson, Dog Gone: Coping with the Loss of a Pet, page 11 - not comparableWithout a ticking sound.
Maybe with the new technology, they might have tickless bombs. They've had tickless clocks for years. And they even have seedless watermelons. So a tickless bomb should be routine.
2018, Maxwell Cooke, The Elderly Gentlemen's Mostly Legitimate Escort Association - not comparablecomputingHaving interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.
a tickless kernel; a tickless scheduler
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tickless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tickless
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