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async

async is the abbreviation of asynchronous.

Meaning of asynchronous

Adjective

asynchronous (not comparable)

  1. Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
    • 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.2013, Al Cooper, Sex and the Internet: A Guide Book for Clinicians, page 215
  2. Allowing the node, program or thread of interest to continue during processing.
  3. Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other.
    • Near-synonym: in parallel
    Synonyms:
    in parallel

Questions about async

What is async the abbreviation of?
Async is the abbreviation of asynchronous.

Words near async in the dictionary

  1. asynapsis
  2. asynaptic
  3. asynartete
  4. asynartetes
  5. asynartetic
  6. async
  7. asynch
  8. asynchronic
  9. asynchronically
  10. asynchronicities
  11. asynchronicity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: async (page history and authors); asynchronous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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