asynchronous

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ synchronous.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /eɪˈsɪŋkɹənəs/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈesɪŋkrənəs/

Adjective

asynchronous (not comparable)

1. Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
   • 2013, Al Cooper, Sex and the Internet: A Guide Book for Clinicians, page 215:

     These cyberforums are asynchronous; that is, contributors post (i.e., publish a text message) without the need for fellow communicants to be online at the same time.

2. (computing, of a request or a message) Allowing the client to continue during processing.
3. (computing, communication) Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other.

   Near-synonym: in parallel

Synonyms

• async (colloquial)
• asynch (colloquial)
• metachronous

Antonyms

• synchronous

Derived terms

• asynchronously
• asynchronousness
• asynchronous transfer mode
• nonasynchronous

Translations

not synchronous

Arabic: لَا مُتَزَامِن m (lā mutazāmin), لَا مُتَزَامِنَة f (lā mutazāmina) Catalan: asíncron Czech: asynchronní Danish: asynkron Dutch: asynchroon (nl) Finnish: asynkroninen French: asynchrone (fr) Hungarian: aszinkron (hu) Icelandic: ósamstilltur Indonesian: asinkron, asinkronus Italian: asincrono (it) Norwegian: Bokmål: asynkron Nynorsk: asynkron Polish: asynchroniczny (pl) Portuguese: assíncrono (pt) Romanian: asincron (ro) m Russian: асинхро́нный (ru) (asinxrónnyj), несинхро́нный (ru) (nesinxrónnyj), несинхронизи́рованный (nesinxronizírovannyj) Spanish: asíncrono, asincrónico Swedish: asynkron (sv)

(computing) allowing the client to continue during processing of a request or a message

Chinese: Mandarin: 异步 (yìbù) Dutch: asynchroon (nl) Esperanto: nesinkrona Finnish: asynkroninen French: asynchrone (fr) Icelandic: ósamstilltur Italian: asincrono (it) Spanish: asíncrono, asincrónico