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The art of making things pretend they happened at the same time.
means The process of coordinating events, clocks, or systems so they align in time or operate in step with one another.
from Built from Greek pieces: 'syn-' meaning together, and 'khronos' meaning time — the same root that gives us chronicle, chronic, and chronology. 'Synchronous' entered English in the 1600s via scientific Latin, describing things occurring at the same moment, and 'synchronization' followed as the act of forcing that togetherness — originally used for clocks and later stretched to cover everything from film soundtracks to swimmers.
- origin
- Greek for with time, naturally
- computing use
- prevents two threads from fighting over memory
- music use
- licensing a song to match video
- irony
- requires perfect timing, rarely achieves it