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GC

GC: Garbage Collector or Garbage Collection. A Garbage Collector is a process that seeks out unused resources and frees them for later reuse. For example in Java and .Net a Garbage Collector runs that frees up unused objects and returns the memory allowing it to be reallocated.

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