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SYNCHRONOUS OPERATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Operations that are initiated predictably by a clock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("synchronous 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:
asynchronous operation (operations that occur without a regular or predictable time relation to other events)