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Synchronous
Synchronous refers to real-time communication where each party receives (and if necessary, processes and replies to) messages instantly (or as near to instantly as possible). A human example is the telephone — during a telephone call you tend to respond to another person immediately. Many programming commands are also synchronous — for example when you type in a calculation, the environment will return the result to you instantly, unless you program it not to.
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- Asynchronous JavaScript