(v.) To put potentially concurrent operations in a strictly sequential order. If concurrent processes must claim a lock before doing some operation, for example, then their operations will be serialized.
A stamping procedure that debosses numbers onto a property ID label or other identification labels. The number process is sequential and can vary in size depending on the requirements.
The process of taking an object and copying all its data somewhere else (usually another machine) so that the object can be duplicated in that other place. Also known as Marshalling.