Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not coinciding in time.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
- adj. computing, of a request or a message Allowing the client to continue during processing.
- adj. computing, communication Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other; the style of communication used by Ajax.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not simultaneous; not concurrent in time; -- opposed to
synchronous . - adj. (Paleontology) occurring in different geologic times; -- of taxa/
- adj. chronologically misplaced; belonging to a different time or era.
- adj. (Computers) occurring at different speeds in different computers connected by a data transmission link; -- said of methods data of transmission between computers. Opposite of
synchronous .
WordNet 3.0
- 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
Examples
“The key in AJAX is the term asynchronous, which enables the browser to provide services and features in simple but exciting ways.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The word asynchronous tells us that the information is not sent in predefined time slots.”
“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.”
“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.”
“While it's easy to make method calls asynchronous, it helps to know what actually happens when the program reaches an await statement.”
“Even with the simplicity, why make file access calls asynchronous?”
“Once you've selected photos to upload, you'll be able to conduct other tasks while the upload is taking place (aka asynchronous uploading).”
“The replication is asynchronous -- in other words, the slaves do not have to acknowledge receipt of the data.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘asynchronous’.
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probablyankita's list
Words are all I have to take your heart away
apartheid, techno-klutz, logorrheic, gordian knot, anodyne, odor of sanctity, finders keepers, foot-in-mouth dis..., dutch uncle, masquerade, smoke signals, furtive glance and 320 more...
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List of Impressive Dissertation Words
Extraordinary words that Johnston and Shea might try to use while writing their dissertations.
egress, limn, effluvium, asynchronous, imbibe, opine, cognoscente, gnosis, inchoate, cathect, austerity, prescient and 1 more...
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Favorites
ostensibly, surreptitiously, seriously, apparently, vociferous, guitar, asphalt, glee, glitter, fascinating, asynchronous, cunt and 128 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 856 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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Blended Learning
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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Individual Communication Management
dyadic, semantic, asynchronous, axiom, meme, schema, somatic, paralanguage, syntax, kinesic, chirology, cognition and 8 more...
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Good words
Use them
erudite, acquiesce, allocutive, gylanic, naff, decussate, chasm, esoteric, enlightenment, illuminate, audacity, faux and 4 more...
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just because
These are words I am picking just because I like them.
I might make more categorized lists later, we shall have to wait and see.animated, asperger, ersatz, surreptitious, extraneous, asynchronous, erroneous, surreal, dreamlike, lackadaisical, opium, firnification and 55 more...
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lancelottjones's Words
enexorable, asynchronous, geriatric, anterior, fortnight, arduous, tedious
Tweets
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