| Subject | English | Finnish |
| IT, el. | garbage collection | muistinsiivous |
| IT, el. | garbage collection | roskankeruu |
| IT, el. | garbage collection | siivous |
| comp., MS | garbage collection | muistin tiivistäminen (A process for automatic recovery of heap memory. Blocks of memory that had been allocated but are no longer in use are freed, and blocks of memory still in use may be moved to consolidate the free memory into larger blocks) |
| comp., MS | garbage collection interval | muistin tiivistämisen väli (A measurement of time indicating how often a domain controller examines its database for expired tombstones that can be collected) |