timeout
A period of time after which an error condition is raised if some event has not occured. A common example is sending a message. If the receiver does not acknowledge the message within some preset timeout period, a transmission error is assumed to have occured.Last updated: 1995-11-09
Nearby terms:
Time Domain Reflectometer ♦ timeout ♦ time quantum ♦ time-sharing
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