Asynchronous

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  • adj. Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
  • adj. Allowing the client to continue during processing.
  • adj. Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other; the style of communication used by Ajax.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not simultaneous; not concurrent in time; -- opposed to synchronous.
  • adj. occurring in different geologic times; -- of taxa/
  • adj. chronologically misplaced; belonging to a different time or era.
  • adj. occurring at different speeds in different computers connected by a data transmission link; -- said of methods data of transmission between computers. Opposite of synchronous.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not coinciding in time.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
  • adj. (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself
    • Equivalent
    nonparallel    allochronic    in series    unsynchronised    nonsynchronous   
    Antonym
    synchronous   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    nonsynchronous    unsynchronized    unsynchronous    anachronic    anachronous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    synchronous    sequential    point-to-point    web-based    high-speed   
     
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