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commit

a) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; used with to, unto.

Commit thy way unto the Lord. Psalms xxxvii. 5.

b) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.

Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. -Shakespeare

See Also: commitment, committal, noncommittal

The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.

To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects...

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