Meaning of ASYNCHRONOUS
| Pronunciation: | | ey'singkrunus
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- [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
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ASYNCHRONOUS is a 12 letter word that starts with A. |
| | Synonyms: | | allochronic, anachronic, anachronistic, anachronous, in series(p), nonparallel, nonsynchronous, serial, unsynchronised, unsynchronized, unsynchronous |
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| | Antonyms: | | synchronal, synchronic, synchronous | | | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \A*syn"chro*nous\, a. [Gr. ? not + synchronous.]
Not simultaneous; not concurrent in time; -- opposed to
{synchronous}.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Not synchronised by a shared signal such as clock or semaphore, proceeding independently. Opposite: synchronous. 1. A process in a multitasking system whose execution can proceed independently, "in the background". Other processes may be started before the asynchronous process has finished. 2. A communications system in which data transmission may start at any time and is indicated by a start bit, e.g. eia-232. A data byte (or other element defined by the protocol) ends with a stop bit. A continuous marking condition (identical to stop bits but not quantized in time), is then maintained until data resumes. |
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