synchronization

synchronize | American Dictionary

synchronize
verb[ T ]
us/ˈsɪŋ·krəˌnɑɪz/
to cause something to happen in a planned way at exact times:
The traffic lights were synchronized to allow cars to go at 30 mph and not have to stop for a red light.
If you synchronize clocks or watches, you change them so that they all show the same time.

Examples of synchronize

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The blastocysts were transferred to the oviducts of recipients that were synchronized either with the donors (synchronous) or 1 day later than the donors (asynchronous).
Spontaneous periodic synchronized bursting during formation of mature patterns of connections in cortical cultures.
An electron pulse was synchronized to the laser pulses within the rms jitter of 3.7 ps by a phase locked control of a mode-locked oscillator.
All the robots will be synchronized in time, and at each time step they can record the input from their sensors.
The above steps are synchronized by each word of an input sentence.
Usually, on standard crop plants, alata production is synchronized with changes in host suitability.
Since the processes are not synchronized, the pruning of a particular subspace may depend on when a shared variable is read.
Lymphohematopoietic progenitors do not have a synchronized defect with age-related thymic involution.
The times were synchronized before any measurements were taken within the plots.
Neighboring geniculate neurons with overlapping receptive fields of the same type often fire spikes synchronized to within 1 ms.!
Since the timing of all events was saved, reconstruction of neuronal activity could be synchronized to sensory or motor events.
Using physically-based models and genetic algorithms for functional composition of sound signals, synchronized to animated motion.
However, not all bursts were synchronized with bursts in neighbor cells.
High frequency, synchronized bursting drives eye-specific segregation of retinogeniculate projections.
Thread scheduling is much more efficient when done in the client process, without requiring hardware- and operating-system context switches when synchronizing or interleaving thread executions.
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