ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does asynchronous operation mean? 

• ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATION (noun)
  The noun ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATION has 1 sense:

1. operations that occur without a regular or predictable time relation to other events

  Familiarity information: ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATION (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)