Asynkronisen

Asynkronisen is a Finnish adjective meaning not synchronized or not occurring at the same time. It is used to describe processes, systems, signals, and communications that do not operate in lockstep with a clock or other reference timing. In technical contexts, it often appears in phrases related to timing, causality, and non-blocking behavior.

The word is a direct loan from English asynchronous and is formed in Finnish from the root synkroninen (synchronous) with the negating prefix a-. It has become a standard term in Finnish technical and scientific vocabularies, especially in information technology, telecommunications, and control engineering. In Finnish usage, asynkroninen conveys the sense of delayed, event-driven, or non-immediate sequencing common in modern computing and communication systems.

In practical terminology, asynkronisen is used to describe programming models, communication methods, and systems that do not require a single, shared timeline. For example, asynkroninen ohjelmointi refers to asynchronous programming where operations may start and complete independently, often using callbacks, promises, or event-driven architectures. Asynkroniset tapahtumat denote events that do not occur simultaneously or in a fixed order, while asynkroninen viestintä describes non-blocking communication patterns.

Morphology-wise, asynkroninen is an inflecting Finnish adjective. The base nominative singular form is asynkroninen; genitive singular is asynkronisen; partitive singular is asynkronista. Plural forms include asynkroniset (nominative), with corresponding inflections such as asynkronisten (genitive). Example: "järjestelmä käyttää asynkronista viestintää" meaning “the system uses asynchronous communication.”

See also: synkroninen, asynchronous in other languages.