Timeout
noun, plural time-outs.
1.
a brief suspension of activity; intermission or break.
2.
Sports. a short interruption in a regular period of play during which a referee or other official stops the clock so that the players may rest, deliberate, make substitutions, etc.
noun
1.
(sport) an interruption in play during which players rest, discuss tactics, or make substitutions
2.
a break taken during working hours
3.
(computing) a condition occurring when the amount of time a computer has been instructed to wait for another device to perform a task has expired, usually indicated by an error message
verb
4.
(intransitive) (of a computer) to stop operating because of a time-out
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)
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