The act of bringing two or more processes to known points in their execution at the same clock time. There are many ways to manage synchronization. The most basic mechanisms are mutexes, condition variables, read/write mutexes, and semaphores.

The method of ensuring that the receiving end can recognize characters in order in which the transmitting end sends them in a serial data transmission is called synchronization. Without synchronization, the receiving end would perceive data simply as a series of binary digits with no relation to one another.

Process of adjusting a receiving terminal or switch clock to match the transmitting system's master clock.

All the Bluetooth devices in a piconet must be synchronized to the master's clock to facilitate Frequency Hopping. FTS for Bluetooth must be synchronized to the piconet in order to follow the frequency hopping of the devices.

In serial data transmission, a method of ensuring that the receiving end can recognize characters in the order in which the transmitting end sent them, and can know where one character ends and the next begins. Without synchronization, the receiving end would perceive data simply as a series of binary digits with no relation to one another. Synchronous communication relies on a clocking mechanism to synchronize the signals between the sending and receiving machines. (See Asynchronous Transmission)()

Serialization of access to a shared resource.

The act of bringing two or more processes to known points in their execution at the same clock time. Explicit synchronization is not needed in SIMD programs (in which every processor either executes the same operation as every other or does nothing) but is often necessary in SPMD and MIMD programs. The time wasted by processes waiting for other processes to synchronize with them can be a major source of inefficiency in parallel programs.

Bringing multiple processes to the same point in their execution before any can continue. For example, MPI_Barrier is a collective routine that blocks the calling process until all receiving processes have called it. This is a useful approach for separating two stages of a computation so messages from each stage are not overlapped.

The process of adjusting a receiving terminal's clock to match the clock of the transmitting terminal.