The state or characteristic of being synchronous or synchronized.

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

Synonym of interrupter gear

A swimming event where swimmers perform a synchronised routine of dance moves in the water.

(computing) The establishment of equivalence between data collections (typically on different servers, and sometimes between trading partners), where each data element in one item maps to a data item in the other, and their data is equivalent.

(military) A technique of timing the delivery of fires by placing all units on a common time. The synchronized clock uses a specific hour and minute based on either local or universal time. Local time is established using the local time zone.

A satellite orbit where the orbital period is equal to, or multiples of, the Earth’s rotational period; i.e. making one, two, three, etc., orbits in a 24-hour period. Examples include geosynchronous (period equals Earth's rotation), semisynchronous (two orbits per day); and geostationary (geosynchronous orbit where satellite maintains a fixed position on the equator).

(of an oscillator in a group having different periods) To adjust its period to that of an average of the group.

(computer science) In the context of thread synchronization, a collection of contexts and objects that share a single lock.

(swimming) Someone who practices synchronized swimming.