Time-out
- When referring to data communications, time-out refers to a disconnect that occurs because no data is being communicated. This commonly occurs for users who use a modem to connect to the Internet. Many ISPs will set a time-out to occur if no data is being communicated after a set period of time. This is commonly performed to help keep phone lines available.
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An error that occurs when a program does not receive a response from the computer, another program, or another computer. Depending upon how the program is written, this error may cause the program to quit or an error message to be displayed.
For example, when using the ping command to
ping another computer if that computer never responds you will receive a
timeout error.
Also see: Error, Time
