Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not coinciding in time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not simultaneous; not concurrent in time; -- opposed to
synchronous . - adjective (Paleontology) occurring in different geologic times; -- of taxa/
- adjective chronologically misplaced; belonging to a different time or era.
- adjective (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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
synchronous ; occurring at different times. - adjective computing, of a request or a message Allowing the client to continue during processing.
- adjective computing, communication Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other; the style of communication used by
Ajax .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
- 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
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Examples
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The key in AJAX is the term asynchronous, which enables the browser to provide services and features in simple but exciting ways.
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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.
From Go to Woe - Only The Best of SLRC in '08 Ben Abraham 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-12-01 Ben Abraham 2008
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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.
Balkinization 2007
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The word asynchronous tells us that the information is not sent in predefined time slots.
The Code Project Latest Articles Metaconta 2009
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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.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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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.
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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.
Site Home CSharpFAQ 2012
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While it's easy to make method calls asynchronous, it helps to know what actually happens when the program reaches an await statement.
Site Home CSharpFAQ 2012
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Even with the simplicity, why make file access calls asynchronous?
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