Synchronization
:This article is about the term Synchronization. For the article on the magazine, see Sync (magazine).
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Synchronization is coordination with respect to time. It is an important concept in the following fields:
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- Computer science
- Physics
- Telecommunication
- Cryptography
- Multimedia
- Photography
- Music (rhythm)
- Rate synchronization
- Phase synchronization
- Time offset synchronization
- Time order synchronization
Synchronization has several subtly distinct sub-concepts:
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Two different time sequences may be synchronized in one sense without being synchronized in another, or synchronized at one time scale whilst being asynchronous in another.
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Systems operating with all their parts in synchrony are said to be synchronous.
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Some systems may be only approximately synchronized, or plesiochronous.
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For some applications relative offsets between events need to be determined, for others only the order of the event is important.
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The idea of simultaneity has many difficulties, both in practice and theory.
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| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Some uses of synchronization |
| ► | See also |
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