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wait state The time spent waiting for an operation to take place. It may refer to a variable length of time a program has to wait before it can process, or to a fixed duration of time, such as a machine cycle.When memory is too slow to respond to the CPU's request for it, wait states are introduced until the memory can catch up. wait state [′wāt ‚stāt] (computer science) The state of a computer program in which it cannot use the central processing unit normally because the unit is waiting to complete an input/output operation.
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