Race condition: A situation in which multiple processes or threads are competing for the same resources, and the outcome depends on the order in which they are executed. It is a common issue in the field of computer science and can lead to unpredictable or incorrect behavior. Examples include the use of locks and semaphores to prevent race conditions, the use of atomic operations to ensure sequential execution, and the use of concurrency control techniques to manage shared resources.
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