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Operating or occurring without requiring matching timing or simultaneous execution.
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- asynchronous communication
- asynchronous operation
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The distant colonies relied on asynchronous communication.
The controller accepted asynchronous input from the sensors.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a timing classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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