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Today, synchronisation can occur on a global basis due to GPS-enabled timekeeping systems.
Today, synchronisation can occur on a global basis due to GPS-enabled timekeeping systems.
==Definition==
*1. a. intr. To occur at the same [[time]]; to coincide in point of time; to be contemporary or simultaneous. Const. with.
:b. trans. To cause to be, or represent as, synchronous; to assign the same date to; to bring together events, etc. belonging to the same time. Also absol.
*2. a. intr. To occur at the same successive instants of time; to keep time with; to go on at the same rate and exactly together; to have coincident periods, as two sets of [[movements]] or [[vibration]]s.
:b. trans. To cause to go at the same rate; spec. to cause (a timepiece) to indicate the same time as another.
:c. In technical senses: to cause to coincide in time; to operate simultaneously or in synchronization. Also intr.
*3. gen. To combine or co-ordinate.
==Transport==
==Transport==
Apart from its use for [[navigation]] (see John Harrison), synchronization was not important in transportation until the nineteenth century, when the coming of the railways made travel fast enough for the [[difference]]s in local time between adjacent towns to be noticeable (see [1]).
Apart from its use for [[navigation]] (see John Harrison), synchronization was not important in transportation until the nineteenth century, when the coming of the railways made travel fast enough for the [[difference]]s in local time between adjacent towns to be noticeable (see [1]).
