ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Operations that occur without a regular or predictable time relation to other events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("asynchronous operation" is a kind of...):

operation ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))

Antonym:

synchronous operation (operations that are initiated predictably by a clock)

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