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synchronization
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synchronization

(1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission.

(2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization.

(3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP.

(4) Keeping the clocks of two devices beating at the same rate. See synchronous transmission.

(5) Sending identical electronic signals from two transmitters. See MediaFLO.

synchronization [‚siŋ·krə·nə′zā·shən]
(engineering)
The maintenance of one operation in step with another, as in keeping the electron beam of a television picture tube in step with the electron beam of the television camera tube at the transmitter. Also known as sync.


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