off-line operation

1. 1.

   a operation performed by off-line equipment not under the control of the central processing unit

   Synonymsauxiliary operation

   Broaderoperation

Questions about off-line operation

What does off-line operation mean?

off-line operation means "a operation performed by off-line equipment not under the control of the central processing unit".

What is another word for off-line operation?

Close synonyms include auxiliary operation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is off-line operation a common word?

off-line operation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.