asynchronous

About 1.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
2. adjective Allowing the node, program or thread of interest to continue during processing.
3. adjective Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other.

Similar words

unsynchronized unsynchronous nonsynchronous nonparallel anachronic anachronistic anachronous serial allochronic synchronous

Often followed by

transfer communication and transmission communications data mode operation receiver

Word family

asynchronously