asynchronous

Meanings

Adjective

• (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
• not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase

Adj

• Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
• Allowing the client to continue during processing.
• Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other.

Synonyms

async, asynch, metachronous

Antonyms

synchronous