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| 1. | [ adjective ] (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 | |
| Related terms: | synchronous | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase | |
| Related terms: | synchronous anachronic serial nonsynchronous in_series nonsynchronous allochronic | |
| Similar spelling: |
asynchronism asynchrony |
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