Locking may refer to: *

Locking (computer science) In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization primitive that prevents state from being modified or accessed by multiple threads of execution at once. Locks enforce mutual exclusion concurrency control policies, ...

Locking, Somerset Locking is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is a predominantly quiet residential area of North Somerset, south east of the town of Weston-super-Mare. As well as a pub and church the village has a village hall, school (Lockin ...

, a village and civil parish in the United Kingdom **

RAF Locking RAF Locking was a Royal Air Force station near the village of Locking and about from Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England. During the period 1939 to 2000, the station trained tens of thousands of engineers in the maintenance of aircr ...

, a former Royal Air Force base **

Locking Castle Locking Castle was a castle that once stood on Carberry Hill near the site of RAF Locking in Locking in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. It has been scheduled as an ancient monument. It was a motte and bailey on Carberry Hill. ...

, a former castle *

Brian Locking Brian "Licorice" Locking (22 December 1938 – 8 October 2020) was an English musician and songwriter known for his tenure as bassist with '' The Wildcats'' in 1959 and The Shadows, between 1962 and 1963. During his time with the Shadows he ap ...

(born 1938), rock guitarist *

Norm Locking Norman Wesley Locking (May 24, 1911 – May 15, 1995) was a Canadian ice hockey left winger. He played 48 games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1934–35 and 1935–36 seasons. The rest of his career, which ...

(1911–1995), National Hockey League player *

Locking (dance) Locking is a style of funk dance. The name is based on the concept of ''locking'' movements, which means freezing from a fast movement and "locking" in a certain position, holding that position for a short while and then continuing at the same spe ...

, a style of funk dance invented in the early 1970s * Prevention of a

screw thread A screw thread is a helical structure used to convert between rotational and linear movement or force. A screw thread is a ridge wrapped around a cylinder or cone in the form of a helix, with the former being called a ''straight'' thread and t ...

from turning when undesired

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