Synchronisation

Definition: Synchronisation

Synchronisation

Noun

1. The relation that exists when things occur at the same time; "the drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves".

2. An adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison.

3. Coordinating by causing to indicate the same time; "the synchronization of their watches was an important preliminary".

Domain	Definition
Biology & Biotechnology	Identification of the correct overlap between two chronologies. Source: European Union. (references)
Electrical Engineering	The process of adjusting the corresponding significant instants of two signals to obtain the desired phase relationship between these instants. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SYN	English	Synchronisation word	Post & Telecom
SYN	French	Mot de synchronisation	Post & Telecom
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Synchronisation

Synonyms: synchroneity (n), synchronicity (n), synchronising (n), synchronism (n), synchronization (n), synchronizing (n), synchrony (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: synchronising (fine arts, european unionelectrical engineering).

Antonym: asynchronism (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Synchronisation

Specialty definitions using "synchronisation": Ada 95, amplitude quantised control, amplitude quantized control, analog control, analog mode, analogue control, analogue mode ♦ bit synchronisation, bit synchronism, bit synchronization ♦ cache coherency, Concurrent ML, critical section ♦ DS1C ♦ Ellie, ENQ ♦ falling edge ♦ hard sector ♦ interrupt handler ♦ MONSTR ♦ null symbol ♦ Path Pascal, Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy, pm2, preamble word, program associated data, programme associated data ♦ sync bit, synchronisation bit, synchronization bit. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Synchronisation" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (synchronization), German (dubbing, synchronization).

Domain	Title
Books	Afferente Informationen und die Synchronisation von Ereignissen (reference) Der römische Kalender (264-168 v. Chr.) : Verlauf und Synchronisation (reference) Exceptionbehandlung und Synchronisation : Entwurf und Methode (reference) Mechanismen zur Synchronisation paralleler Prozesse (reference) Neurocomputers and Attention: Neurobiology, Synchronisation and Chaos (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Armament (guns, machine guns, light machine guns, bombdropping apparatus, torpedo-dropping apparatus, synchronisation apparatus, aiming apparatus). (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Synchronisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Synchronisation" is used about 33 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%	33	60,273

Expressions using "synchronisation": bit synchronisation ♦ frame synchronisation signal ♦ lip synchronisation ♦ synchronisation bit ♦ synchronisation word ♦ traffic light synchronisation. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "synchronisation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		同步 (geostationary, synchronise, synchronised, synchronising, synchronization, synchronize, synchronized, synchronizing). (various references)

Danish		synkronisering (synchronising, synchronization, synchronizing). (various references)

Dutch		synchronisatie (synchronising, synchronization, synchronizing). (various references)

Finnish		synkronointi (synchronising, synchronization, synchronizing), tahdistus (synchronising, synchronization, synchronizing). (various references)

French		synchronisation (synchronization). (various references)

German		Synchronisierung (phasing, sychronous idle, synchonization), Synchronisieren (dub, sync, synchronize), Synchronisation (dubbing, synchronization), Gleichlaufverfahren (synchronising, synchronization, synchronizing), Filmsynchronisation (synchronising). (various references)

Greek		συγχρονισμός φάσης (synchronising, synchronization, synchronizing), συγχρονισμός (timing). (various references)

Indonesian		pembarengan. (various references)

Italian		sincronizzazione (synchronization, timing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		同期外れ (synchronisation loss). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		どうきはずれ (synchronisation loss). (various references)

Korean		동기�" (synchronization). (various references)

Pig Latin		ynchronisationsay

Portuguese		sincronizacão (synchronising), sincronizaçao (crossdating, cross-dating, synchronization), sincronização (synchronising, synchronization, synchronizing). (various references)

Spanish		sincronizacion (synchronising), sincronización (synchronization, timing). (various references)

Swedish		synkronisering (synchronization). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "synchronisation": synchronisations. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-i-n-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-y"
	-4 letters: sonications.
	-5 letters: cartoonish, consistory, consonants, constrains, crayonists, historians, nonactions, ornithosis, sonication, stanchions, transsonic.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-i-n-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-y"
	+1 letter: synchronisations, synchronizations.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
microsoft synchronisation	38
file synchronisation	4
calendar contact synchronisation wizard	2
goldmine synchronisation	2
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Synchronisation

Definition: Synchronisation