asynchronous

IPA: ˈeɪsˈɪŋkrʌnʌs

Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
(computing, of a request or a message) Allowing the client to continue during processing.
(computing, communication) Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other.

Examples of "asynchronous" in Sentences

Even with the simplicity, why make file access calls asynchronous?
The word asynchronous tells us that the information is not sent in predefined time slots.
The key in AJAX is the term asynchronous, which enables the browser to provide services and features in simple but exciting ways.
While it's easy to make method calls asynchronous, it helps to know what actually happens when the program reaches an await statement.
Yesterday, I was in serious danger of working on my PhD thesis so in desperation I looked into this whole Flickr web2.0 tag asynchronous feed business.
Off to a slightly shaky start, the piece was roughly shoe-horned into the round table topic of the month but was ostensibly targeting the potential within asynchronous gameplay.
To make synchronous code asynchronous, you can simply call an asynchronous method instead of a synchronous method and add a few keywords to the code, as shown in the examples below.
I had thought to go to the recently deceased jdamicus and try getting some traction on the question that's pestering me, not as homework but strictly extra-curricular, about determination of jurisdiction in asynchronous electronic transactions.