synchronizations
Coordinated timing events
Synchronizations are acts of coordinating things to occur or operate together in time.
The word appears in technical contexts—software synchronizations update files across devices, audio-video synchronizations align sound with image.
In music, synchronizations (often shortened to syncs) are licensing deals that pair songs with visual media: The band earns most of its income from synchronizations in TV commercials.
Organized cooperative movement
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
- clocksInstruments displaying hours
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
- simultaneityState of coexisting temporally
beats · metronome · choreography · unison · lockstep · cadence · rhythm · timing
Daily biological cycle
- rhythmsPatterns of repeated movement
- menstrualOf monthly uterine cycles
- hormonalRelating to body's chemical messengers
- cyclesRecurring sequences of events
neural · brainwaves · heartbeat · breathing · sleep · pheromones · entrainment · metabolic
Established codes of conduct
- threadsTwisted fiber strands
- processesSeries of actions
- semaphoreFlag-based signaling system
- databaseOrganized digital information collection
replication · mirroring · latency · buffers · handshake · polling · timestamps · transactions
coordination
Organized cooperative movement
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
- clocksInstruments displaying hours
- precisionAccuracy of measurement
simultaneity · beats · metronome · choreography · unison · lockstep · cadence · rhythm · timing · parallel
circadian
Daily biological cycle
- rhythmsPatterns of repeated movement
- menstrualOf monthly uterine cycles
- hormonalRelating to body's chemical messengers
cycles · neural · brainwaves · heartbeat · breathing · sleep · pheromones · entrainment · metabolic · seasonal
protocols
Established codes of conduct
database · replication · mirroring · latency · buffers · handshake · polling · timestamps · transactions · concurrency
cloud
Atmospheric water vapor mass
automatic · real-time · updates · folders · Dropbox · Google · wireless · seamless · background · storage
synchronizationsdesynchronizations
Losses of temporal alignment
asynchronies · delays · offsets · desynchronizing · misalignments
synchronizationschaos
Complete disorder and confusion
disorder · disarray · randomness · confusion · incoherence
synchronizationsmisalignments
States of being askew
disconnections · decouplings · discordances · incompatibilities · mismatches
- data synchronizationAligning information across systems