Alternative form of lock-in

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

To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked. / (computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure.

(business, economics) An event in which an employer bars employees from working as a tactic in negotiating terms of employment, particularly in response to a strike or threat to strike.

(physiology) The localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.

(pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria. It causes muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.

A lock situated between an enclosed basin or a canal and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass either way at all times of the tide

A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime. / (mathematics) The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.

(uncountable) The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.

(firearms) The time, usually measured in milliseconds, from when the trigger is pulled until the firing pin strikes the primer.