"synchronization" meaning in English

See synchronization in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: en-us-synchronization.ogg Forms: synchronizations [plural]
Etymology: From synchronize + -ation. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|synchronize|ation}} synchronize + -ation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} synchronization (countable and uncountable, plural synchronizations)
  1. The state or property of being synchronized. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the state or property of being synchronized): համաժամեցում (hamažamecʻum) (Armenian), sincronización [feminine] (Asturian), сінхраніза́цыя (sinxranizácyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), синхрониза́ция (sinhronizácija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), sincronització [feminine] (Catalan), 同步 (tóngbù) (Chinese Mandarin), 同步化 (tóngbùhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), synkronisering [common-gender] (Danish), synchronisatie [feminine] (Dutch), sinkronigo (Esperanto), sünkroniseerimine (Estonian), synkronointi (Finnish), tahdistus (Finnish), synchronisation [feminine] (French), sincronización [feminine] (Galician), Synchronisierung [feminine] (German), szinkronizálás (Hungarian), sinkronisasi (Indonesian), sincronizzazione [feminine] (Italian), 同期 (dōki) (alt: どうき) (Japanese), whakatautokotahitanga (Maori), whakatukutahitanga (Maori), همگامسازی (hamgâm-sâzi) (Persian), synchronizacja [feminine] (Polish), sincronização [feminine] (Portuguese), sincronizare [feminine] (Romanian), синхрониза́ция (sinxronizácija) [feminine] (Russian), sinkronizacija (Serbo-Croatian), sincronización [feminine] (Spanish), synkronisering [common-gender] (Swedish), senkronizasyon (Turkish), синхроніза́ція (synxronizácija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. (military) The arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Military
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: synchroneity [state], synchronicity, simultaneousness, synchronisation [Commonwealth, English]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
      "word": "antisynchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "asynchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "autosynchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "data synchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "desynchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "dissynchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "dyssynchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "hypersynchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "missynchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "photosynchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "presynchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "resynchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "self-synchronization"
    },
    {
      "word": "synchronization domain"
    },
    {
      "word": "synchronization gear"
    },
    {
      "word": "synchronization proxy"
    },
    {
      "word": "unsynchronization"
    }
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From synchronize + -ation.",
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "text": "The generator went off line when it lost synchronization with the power line."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987 April 18, Tom Grabosky, “Gay Men's Voices Rise Up Singin'”, in Gay Community News, page 7:",
          "text": "I was very impressed with the obvious amount of work that went into the learning and synchronization of such a complex and harmonically and difficult score.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Staff (Max Planck Institute), Study: Solar and wind energy may stabilize the power grid, R&D Magazine, online",
          "text": "Synchronization, the coordinated dynamics of many units to the same timing is found throughout the natural world."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or property of being synchronized."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "synchronize",
          "synchronize"
        ]
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      "tags": [
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        "uncountable"
      ]
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      "categories": [
        "en:Military"
      ],
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        "The arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time."
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        [
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          "time"
        ],
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          "space",
          "space"
        ],
        [
          "purpose",
          "purpose"
        ],
        [
          "combat",
          "combat"
        ],
        [
          "power",
          "power"
        ],
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          "decisive"
        ]
      ],
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        "(military) The arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
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    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "of being synchronized"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "state"
      ],
      "word": "synchroneity"
    },
    {
      "word": "synchronicity"
    },
    {
      "word": "simultaneousness"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "English"
      ],
      "word": "synchronisation"
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    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "hamažamecʻum",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "համաժամեցում"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sincronización"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "sinxranizácyja",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сінхраніза́цыя"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sinhronizácija",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "синхрониза́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sincronització"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tóngbù",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "同步"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tóngbùhuà",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "同步化"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "synkronisering"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "synchronisatie"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "sinkronigo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "sünkroniseerimine"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "synkronointi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "tahdistus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "synchronisation"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sincronización"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Synchronisierung"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "szinkronizálás"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "sinkronisasi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sincronizzazione"
    },
    {
      "alt": "どうき",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dōki",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "同期"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "whakatautokotahitanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "whakatukutahitanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "hamgâm-sâzi",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "همگامسازی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "synchronizacja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sincronização"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sincronizare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sinxronizácija",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "синхрониза́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "sinkronizacija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sincronización"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "synkronisering"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "word": "senkronizasyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "synxronizácija",
      "sense": "the state or property of being synchronized",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "синхроніза́ція"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "synchronization"
  ],
  "word": "synchronization"
}

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