Asynchronous and Synchronous Terms

Question

I\'m confused by the term asynchronous when related to programming. It seems to mean the opposite in programming terms as what it is defined as in the dictionary.

Answer 1

Synchronous Request: A request is called synchronous when it waits for the response of that particular request before executing the other one. i.e when a client makes a call synchronously then it blocks the client browser to ensure that client couldn’t make another call before getting the server response for that previous call.

Asynchronous Request: An asynchronous call works independently i.e it doesn’t wait for the server response before executing another call or request. so u can simply make different calls at the same time without waiting for the server response.