0 past simple and past participle of dispatch
1 to send something, especially goods or a message, somewhere for a particular purpose:
2 to kill someone:
The server then enters an event processing loop until all generated events have been dispatched, and then the application exits.
In an object-oriented language, covert flow also happens via dynamically dispatched method call.
A catcher was dispatched to intercept the depot, and the most important items were recovered.
Each command dispatched by a terminal will be eventually processed in this way.
An inquiry commission was dispatched to the village to resolve the issue.
Prior to 1864, just a few trial orders of cryolite had been dispatched.
Yet it was already based on a division of work between the research laboratory and the laboratory that produced and dispatched vaccines.
Two thousand, rather than the requested one thousand, were promptly dispatched.