timeout

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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)
    

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