Timeout

Definitions

1. A configured maximum duration that a system will wait for an operation (network request, database query, lock acquisition) to complete before aborting it and treating it as a failure — a critical circuit-breaker against cascading hangs.

   In plain English: A time limit that cancels an operation if it takes too long, preventing the system from waiting forever.

   Example: "The default HTTP timeout was 30 seconds, so one slow upstream service tied up all our connections until the pool was exhausted."

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