synchronization

The process of maintaining one operation in step with another. The commonest example is the electric clock, whose motor rotates at some integral multiple or submultiple of the speed of the alternator in the power station. In television, synchronization is essential in order that the electron beams of receiver picture tubes are at exactly the same spot on the screen at each instant as is the beam in the television camera tube at the transmitter

1. The arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time.
2. In the intelligence context, application of intelligence sources and methods in concert with the operation plan.

Synchronization is a problem in timekeeping which requires the coordination of events to operate a system . The familiar conductor of an orchestra serves to keep the orchestra in time. Systems operating with all their parts in synchrony are said to be synchronous.