Timeout

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  time-out
       n : a brief suspension of play; "each team has two time-outs
           left"

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:



  timeout
       
          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)