The referee alone can stop the clock in soccer. Coaches are not permitted to call timeouts. A FIFA experiment with timeouts during the 1995 U-17 World Cup in Ecuador (coaches were allowed to call one [..]

The Internet Dictionary What occurs when one computer fails to respond to another within a predetermined interval during a conversation.

If you try to connect to any server on the internet – to view a website or collect email – and it takes too long, you will have a time out. It purely means it has taken too long, so the process was aborted. This is often what has happened when you get an error while trying to send or receive email, or when you try to visit a website and instead get [..]

In computing, a routine that automatically terminates a period of waiting when a screen requiring user input receives no response within a designated time, for example, a network interface that logs o [..]

Event that occurs when one network device expects to hear from another network device within a specified period of time, but does not. The resulting timeout usually results in a retransmission of info [..]

Sometimes you are prepared to wait only N seconds for an operation to complete. If it takes longer than that, you want to give up. The length of time you wait is the timeout. You often use these in so [..]

A break in the game.

A period of nonreinforcement arranged either by extinction during a stimulus orby removal of an opportunity to respond (e.g., with pigeons, which only rarely peck keys in darkness, by turning off all [..]

A procedure in which access to varied sources of reinforcement is removed or reduced for a particular time period contingent on a response. The opportunity to receive reinforcement is contingently rem [..]

Occurs when a lock request has waited longer than the prescribed wait time for the request to be granted.

When play is temporarily suspended by an official or at the request of a team to respond to an injured player or discuss strategy.

With eNet, client and server monitor if the other side is acknowledging reliable commands. If these ACKs are missing for a longer time, the connection is considered lost.

A timeout occurs if a player runs out of available thinking time in a game. In this case the Vacation Policy tries to protect the game from being terminated and lost by the late player. The game is te [..]

Session end by inactivity. Session Timeout will be reported after 120 seconds of complete inactivity (i.e., no packets seen).

A break in the game.