A convoy is a group of vehicles or ships traveling together for mutual support. A convoy is a group of Vehicles (of any type but usually motor vehicles or ships traveling together for mutual support
Convoy may also refer to:
In transport
- LDV Convoy A cargo/passenger van manufactured by LDV
In popular culture
- Convoy (song), a 1975 trucker's song by C. The LDV Pilot is a Panel van that was produced by LDV Limited from 1997 until 2006 and closely based on preceding models dating back to 1974 (which were in turn " Convoy " is a 1975 Novelty song performed by CW McCall (pseudonym of Bill Fries that became a number-one hit in the USA (#2 UK and helped W. McCall
- Convoy (film), a film by Sam Peckinpah and Kris Kristofferson, inspired by the C. Convoy is a 1978 Action film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starred Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine W. McCall song of the same name
- Convoy (documentary), a film by Rachel Robertson following a humanitarian aid convoy by Workers' Aid for Kosova in 1999
- Convoy (Transformers), the Japanese name for the Transformers character, Optimus Prime
- Convoy (band), a southern Californian rock music band
Places
Computer Science
- Lock Convoy, a performance problem that can occur when using locks for concurrency control in a multithreaded application. Workers' Aid for Bosnia (sometimes abbreviated to "Workers' Aid" was founded in London, United Kingdom in 1993 after a call by the Campaign Against Convoy was a short lived San Diego, California rock band After independently releasing Pineapple Recording Sessions, the group was signed to Hybrid Convoy ( Irish: Conmhaigh) is a small Village in the east of County Donegal, Ireland. County Donegal (ˌdʌnəˈgɔːl Irish: Contae Dhún na nGall. Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. In Computer science, a lock convoy is a performance problem that can occur when using locks for Concurrency control in a multithreaded application In Computer science, a lock is a synchronization mechanism for enforcing limits on access to a resource in an environment where there are many threads of In Computer science, especially in the fields of Computer programming (see also Concurrent programming, Parallel programming) Operating systems Multithreading computers have hardware support to efficiently execute multiple threads.
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