The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synchronize \Syn"chro*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Synchronized; p. pr. & vb. n. Synchronizing.] [Gr. ?.] To agree in time; to be simultaneous.
The path of this great empire, through its arch of
progress, synchronized with that of Christianity.
--De
Quincey.
Wiktionary
Having attained synchronization, together, coordinated, combined. v
(en-past of: synchronize)
WordNet
adj. operating in unison; "the synchronized flapping of a bird's wings" [syn: synchronised]
Wikipedia
Synchronized is the fourth studio album from Canadian stoner rock band Sheavy.
Synchronized may refer to:
- synchronization (US) or synchronisation (UK), the coordination of events to operate a system in unison
- Synchronized (album), a 2002 album by sHeavy
- synchronized, an Objective-C, D and Java keyword denoting a block of code subject to a mutual exclusion algorithm
Usage examples of "synchronized".
In its most refined form, persistent sync can be spectacular, as in the kickline of the Rockettes or the matched movements of synchronized swimmers.
Lou Pecora provided a blow-by-blow account of how he and Tom Carroll were led to the discovery of synchronized chaos.
The fluorescent band composed of these tiny organisms lights up and goes out with a precision that is perfectly synchronized, and one is left wondering what means of communication they possess which enables them to coordinate their shining as though controlled by a mechanical device.
Sperm swimming side by side en route to the egg beat their tails in unison, in a primordial display of synchronized swimming.
In the synchronized state, both of the other oscillators have voltage 0 too.
Now the population acted more like an Eastern European concert audience, in which synchronized applause bursts out without any prompting.
The end result was a population split into a synchronized pack and a disorganized band of fringe oscillators.
As he made the distribution even narrower, more and more oscillators were co-opted into the synchronized pack.
If the bell curve is broader than this threshold, meaning that the club membership is too diverse, the partially synchronized state disappears.
The partially synchronized state is exactly what Wiener had in mind when he modeled the alpha rhythm of brain waves.
As they both realized, a synchronized pack cannot form unless the population is homogeneous enough.
His formulas showed that a tiny synchronized nucleus is born at threshold, with order parameter barely above 0.
As the diversity is reduced and the oscillators become more similar, the order parameter rises as the synchronized pack conscripts more of the population.
At 11 months she presented the opposite problem: Now her rhythms were all too stubbornly synchronized, welded to a particular 24-hour pattern that we happened to find oppressive.
The conductor for this symphony is the circadian pacemaker, a neural cluster of thousands of clock cells in the brain, themselves synchronized into a coherent unit.