Meaning

5 senses
  1. One who or that which synchronizes.

    Part of a synchromesh manual transmission that allows the smooth engagement of gears.

  2. A device that permits an automatic weapon to fire between the blades of a revolving propeller.

  3. A kind of arbiter.

  4. A device for aligning multiple film strips in a replay or editing device.

  5. An algorithm that can be applied to a synchronous distributed algorithm to produce a version that operates in asynchronous networks.

More definitions
  • an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines)

Forms

plural: synchronizers
Singularsynchronizer
Pluralsynchronizers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines):synchroscopesynchronoscopesynchroniser

Word family

4 related words

See also

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