ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Waitable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Waitable is an adjective meaning (computing) Implementing a wait/notify functionality.

Meaning

(computing) Implementing a wait/notify functionality.

More Meanings

  1. (of a period of time) Worth waiting, reasonable to wait.
  2. Available or accessible within a period of time that is reasonable to wait.

Example Sentences

[…] ---2 months can change a lot--- bringing up '2 years' is ridiculous. 2 months is waitable.
[…] can someone tell me how busy tomorrowland has been is it waitable or does it like take 3 hrs like some were saying to get on RR […]
This function cancels a waitable timer operation. The timer remains in its current state and will not restart until explicitly started […]
In a [certain] Win32 application, you need to process messages, but you also want to wait for kernel-level waitable objects, and coordinate several activities.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include timer, asynchronous, atomic, tickless, threadable, optimistic.

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