asynchronous
IPA: ˈeɪsˈɪŋkrʌnʌs
adjective
- 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.
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Examples of "asynchronous" in Sentences
- Asynchronous cellular automaton.
- Asynchronous signal programming.
- Asynchronous serial communication.
- Asynchronous receiving and transmitting.
- Channels may be synchronous or asynchronous.
- Crossing the Synchronous Asynchronous Divide.
- Asynchronous and synchronous data transmission.
- Ah, the vagaries of asynchronous communications ...
- Even with the simplicity, why make file access calls asynchronous?
- The schedule is divided into an isochronous phase and an asynchronous phase.
- The duration of the isochronous and the asynchronous phase can be configured.
- 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.