Synchronization

Each line handled the problem by synchronizing all its stations to headquarters as a standard railway time.

In some territories, companies shared a single railroad track and needed to avoid collisions.

In electrical engineering terms, for digital logic and data transfer, a synchronous circuit requires a clock signal.

In a different sense, electronic systems are sometimes synchronized to make events at points far apart appear simultaneous or near-simultaneous from a certain perspective.

[a] Timekeeping technologies such as the GPS satellites and Network Time Protocol (NTP) provide real-time access to a close approximation to the UTC timescale and are used for many terrestrial synchronization applications of this kind.

Poincaré phase oscillators are model systems that can interact and partially synchronize within random or regular networks.

A unified approach that quantifies synchronization in chaotic systems can be derived from the statistical analysis of measured data.

[3] In cognitive neuroscience, (stimulus-dependent) (phase-)synchronous oscillations of neuron populations serve to solve the general binding problem.

According to this theory, all reactions occurring in a living cell are synchronized in terms of quantities and timescales to maintain biological network functional.

[27] During arguments, synchrony between the arguing pair has been noted to decrease; however, it is not clear whether this is due to the change in emotion or other factors.

There are also electronic digital circuits called synchronizers that attempt to perform arbitration in one clock cycle.

Encryption systems usually require some synchronization mechanism to ensure that the receiving cipher is decoding the right bits at the right time.