Timeout (telecommunication)

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Timeout (telecommunication)

In telecommunication

Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the assisted Transmission of Signal over a distance for the purpose of communication. In earlier times, this may have involved the use of smoke signals, Drum , Semaphore line, flag signals or heliograph....
and related engineering (including computer networking

Computer networking

Computer networking is the engineering discipline concerned with communication between computer systems or Peripheral devices. Networking, routers, routing protocols, and networking over the public Internet have their specifications defined in documents called Request for Commentss....
and programming

Computer programming

Computer programming is the process of writing, testing, debugging/troubleshooting, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in a programming language....
), the term timeout or time-out has several meanings, not very unlike those of a sporting-oriented time-out:

See also Permanent signal

Permanent signal

Permanent Signal in US telephony jargon, or Permanent Loop in British usage, is a condition in which a POTS line is off-hook without connection for an extended period of time....

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In telecommunication

Telecommunication

Computer networking

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A network
Telecommunications network

A telecommunications network is a wiktionary:Network of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes....
parameter related to an enforced event
Event-driven programming

In computer programming, event-driven programming or event-based programming is a programming paradigm in which the Program flow is determined by event s — i.e., sensor outputs or user actions or Message passing from other programs or Thread_....
designed to occur at the conclusion of a predetermined elapsed time
Time

Time is a component of the measurement used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects....
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A specified period of time that will be allowed to elapse in a system
System

System is a set of interacting or interdependent entities, real or abstract, forming an integrated whole.The concept of an "integrated whole" can also be stated in terms of a system embodying a set of relationships which are differentiated from relationships of the set to other elements, and from relationships between an element of the se...
before a specified event is to take place, unless another specified event occurs first; in either case, the period is terminated when either event takes place. Note: A timeout condition can be canceled by the receipt of an appropriate time-out cancellation signal.
An event that occurs at the end of a predetermined period of time that began at the occurrence of another specified event. The timeout can be prevented by an appropriate signal.

Sources

Federal Standard 1037C
Federal Standard 1037C

Federal Standard 1037C, entitled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a United States Federal Standard, issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended....
MIL-STD-188
MIL-STD-188

MIL-STD-188 is a series of U.S. military standards relating to telecommunications....