Time Wait

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
TW
Pronunciation
/taɪm weɪt/
Category
Computing
Related Field
Assembly

Examples in Context

  1. Waiting for TIME_WAIT to finish can be annoying, especially if you're developing a socket server and you need to stop the server to make changes and then restart it.
  2. After the TIME_WAIT state has exited, the socket is removed, and the address can be rebound without issue.
  3. An early bird the man who is always on time and therefore waste a lot of time wait for other people.
  4. The pitfall is that no active socket may exist, but binding to the port is still disallowed ( bind returns EADDRINUSE ), which is caused by the TCP socket TIME_WAIT state.
  5. By adding different time parameters to action places, the intermediate storage policy of Zero Wait and Finite Time Wait(TW) specially in batch process plant can be modeled and analyzed;

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