Serialization

Definition: Serialization

Serialization

Noun

1. Publication in serial form.

Specialty Definitions: Serialization

Domain	Definitions
Electrical Engineering	The changing from parallel-by-bit to serial-by-bit. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Serialization

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In computer programming, serialization has two meanings:

one is to force one-at-a-time access for the purposes of concurrency control
the other means to render an instance of an abstract data type into a byte stream.

This article is about the latter meaning.

Serialization is the process of taking an in memory data structure of an object and encoding it into a serial (hence the term) sequence of bytes. This encoded version can then be saved to disk, sent across a network connection, or otherwise communicated to a recipient.

The serialized data is decoded by the receiving program into an in-memory copy of the data.

Serialization is used as a simple way to make objects persistent, send messages, or even to distribute objects. There are certainly other ways to accomplish these things, and serialization is often viewed as a quick and dirty method. There are cases, however, where it is perfectly adequate to the task at hand.

Serialization breaks the opacity ideal of an abstract data type by potentially exposing private implementation details. For this reason and for other reasons, publishers of proprietary software often keep the details of their programs' serialization formats a trade secret. Some deliberately obfuscate, or even encrypt the serialized data.

On the other hand, interoperability requires that applications be able to understand each other's serializations for a given object. For this reason, remote method call architectures such as the CORBA architecture define their serialization formats in detail and often provide methods of checking the consistency of any serialized stream when converting it back into an object.

Starting in the late 1990s, the XML standard has become a popular and widely supported means of data serialization into text. Because of its flexible syntax, XML can represent a wide variety of data structures.

See also Persistence. In publishing, serialization is publication in serial form. See serial publication.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Serialization."

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Synonym: Serialization

Synonym: serialisation (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Serialization

English words defined with "serialization": lend. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Serialization

Domain	Title
Books	The Syntax of Serial Verbs: An Investigation into Serialization in Sranan and Other Languages (Creole Language Library 2) (reference) Visual Basic .NET Serialization Handbook (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Serialization

"Serialization" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Serialization" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Serialization

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
serialization	14
java serialization	3
serialization xml	2
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Modern Translations: Serialization

Language		Translations for "serialization"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		seriel (serial, serialisation), sekventiel (consecutive, sequential, serialisation). (various references)

Dutch		serieomzetting (serialisation). (various references)

Finnish		sarjoitus (serialisation). (various references)

French		sérialisation (serialisation). (various references)

German		Serialisierung (serialisation), sendung in fortsetzungen, umarbeitung in fortsetzungen, Anordnung (adjustment, alignment, appointment, arrangement, array, classification, collocation, decree, disposal, disposition, fiat, formation, get up, grouping, injunction, layout, order, ordering, ordinance, position, regulation). (various references)

Greek		μετατροπή παραλληλίας-σειράς (serialisation). (various references)

Italian		sequenza (sequence, string). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		連載 (serial story). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		れんさい (serial story). (various references)

Korean		연재 (serialisation). (various references)

Pig Latin		erializationsay

Portuguese		serialização (serialisation), conversão paralela-série (serialisation). (various references)

Russian		преобразование в последовательную форму (serializations). (various references)

Spanish		serialización (serialisation), publicación por entregas. (various references)

Swedish		parallell-serieomvandling (serialisation). (various references)

Ukranian		видання по частинам. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Serialization

Derivations
	Words beginning with "serialization": serializations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Serialization" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: derealisation, medicalization, serialazation, tertiarization. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Serialization

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-t-z"
	-1 letter: rationalizes, realizations.
	-2 letters: italianizes, rationalise, rationalize, realization.
	-3 letters: alienators, italianise, italianize, rationales, senatorial, sinoatrial.
	-4 letters: aerations, aerialist, alienator, alizarins, analities, anilities, antisolar, atrazines, laniaries, latinizes, lionizers, notarizes, oralities, orientals, rationale, rationals, relations, saintlier, sanitoria, serotinal, solitaire, triazines, triazoles.
	-5 letters: aeration, ailerons, airlines, alations, alienist, alienors, alizarin, antisera, asternal, atrazine, elations, entrails, inertial, inertias, initials, insolate.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-t-z"
	+1 letter: linearizations, serializations.
	+2 letters: liberalizations, literalizations, mineralizations, resocialization, revisualization, revitalizations, traditionalizes.
	+3 letters: detribalizations, internalizations, materializations, regionalizations, resocializations, revisualizations, totalitarianizes, universalization.
	+4 letters: demilitarizations, demineralizations, editorializations, impersonalization, internationalizes, recapitalizations, rehospitalization, remilitarizations, universalizations.
	+5 letters: commercializations, decriminalizations, dematerializations, impersonalizations, overspecialization, rehospitalizations, renationalizations, theatricalizations.
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