asynchronous
/eɪˈsɪŋkrənəs/
adjective
- Not happening at the same time; not synchronized.
- The two clocks were asynchronous, showing different times.
- Asynchronous online classes let students watch lectures at their own pace.
- Asynchronous communication, like email, allows people to reply when convenient.
- In computing, describing operations that do not require waiting for a previous operation to complete before starting.
- The app uses asynchronous requests to fetch data from the server in the background.
- Asynchronous programming allows a website to load images without freezing the page.
- In asynchronous processing, multiple tasks can run independently.
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