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synchronous operation

[′siŋ·krə·nəs ‚äp·ə′rā·shən]
(electronics)
An operation that takes place regularly or predictably with respect to the occurrence of a particular event in another process.
In particular, an operation whose timing is controlled by pulses generated by an electronic clock.
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An initial contribution to the new OASIS Biometrics Technical Committee will be the NIST Specification for WS-Biometric Devices (WS-BD), which defines a REST-based framework for deploying and invoking core synchronous operations via lightweight Web service protocols for the command and control of biometric sensors.
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