Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lock

Alternative form of lock-in

(transitive) To secure (someone or something) in a locked enclosure. / (transitive) To fix the value of (something potentially variable).

An English surname — famously held by: / John Locke (1632 – 1704); an influential English philosopher of the Enlightenment and social contract theorist.

present participle of lock

The act by which something is locked. / (computing) The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.

(US) A sleepover party, usually held in a public place such as a church or school, in which the participants are not allowed to leave until the next morning.

(no longer productive) Action or proceeding, practice, ritual

(intransitive) To begin tracking a target via an automated system. / (transitive) To cause a missile to track (a target).

Archaic spelling of lock.