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Noun: race condition
  1. A type of flaw in an electronic or software system where the output is dependent on the sequence or timing of other uncontrollable events; the term originates with the idea of two signals racing each other to influence the output first
    "The developers spent hours debugging a race condition in the multi-threaded application"

Derived forms: race conditions

Encyclopedia: Race condition