Timeout vs Overdue - What's the difference?
timeout | overdue |
(communication) The allowed maximal time for a process to end normally.
(communication) The intentional termination of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.
Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
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As a noun timeout
is timeout.As an adjective overdue is
late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.timeout
English
Noun
(en noun)- My connection was so slow that I kept receiving timeouts when trying to view Web pages.
- My connection was so slow that I kept receiving timeouts when trying to view Web pages.
overdue
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue . When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
