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asynchronous is an adjective meaning "(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". It carries 2 recorded senses.
(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
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for asynchronous come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.