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. (1995-11-09)

In addition suitable contents:
[ af ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ am ] [ an ] [ as ] [ av ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ ck ] [ co ] [ com ] [ con ] [ cu ] [ ding ] [ do ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ er ] [ error ] [ es ] [ et ] [ event ] [ ge ] [ h ] [ in ] [ io ] [ is ] [ it ] [ kn ] [ knowledge ] [ message ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mp ] [ ng ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ om ] [ pe ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ sa ] [ se ] [ set ] [ si ] [ sm ] [ so ] [ su ] [ sum ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ um ] [ ve ]