synchronization
English
Alternative forms
- synchronisation (Commonwealth English)
Etymology
From synchronize + -ation.
Pronunciation
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Noun
synchronization (countable and uncountable, plural synchronizations)
- The state or property of being synchronized.
- The generator went off line when it lost synchronization with the power line.
- 1987 April 18, Tom Grabosky, “Gay Men's Voices Rise Up Singin'”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
- I was very impressed with the obvious amount of work that went into the learning and synchronization of such a complex and harmonically and difficult score.
- 2012, Staff (Max Planck Institute), Study: Solar and wind energy may stabilize the power grid, R&D Magazine, online:
- Synchronization, the coordinated dynamics of many units to the same timing is found throughout the natural world.
- (military) The arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time.
Synonyms
- (state of being synchronized): synchroneity, synchronicity; see also Thesaurus:simultaneousness
Derived terms
- antisynchronization
- asynchronization
- autosynchronization
- data synchronization
- desynchronization
- dissynchronization
- dyssynchronization
- hypersynchronization
- missynchronization
- photosynchronization
- presynchronization
- resynchronization
- self-synchronization
- synchronization domain
- synchronization gear
- synchronization proxy
- unsynchronization
Translations
the state or property of being synchronized
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