Section

/ˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl ˈsɛk.ʃən/

noun — “the VIP lounge of your program where only one process can party at a time.”

Critical Section is a part of a program where shared resources, like memory or files, are accessed and modified. To prevent race conditions and data corruption, only one process or thread is allowed to execute in the Critical Section at any given time. Proper synchronization ensures consistent and predictable behavior in concurrent systems.