Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: asynchronous
Definition: A data transmission method in which each character is sent one bit at a time. Each character has a start and stop bit to synchronize signals between the sending device and receiving device. This allows a character to be sent at random after the preceding character has been sent. See also synchronous.

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