SYNCHRONOUS OPERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does synchronous operation mean? 

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

1. operations that are initiated predictably by a clock

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYNCHRONOUS OPERATION (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)