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  2. Synchronization - Wikipedia

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    In electrical engineering terms, for digital logic and data transfer, a synchronous circuit requires a clock signal.A clock signal simply signals the start or end of some time period, often measured in microseconds or nanoseconds, that has an arbitrary relationship to any other system of measurement of the passage of minutes, hours, and days.

  3. Diachrony and synchrony - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, in Saussure's view, language change (diachrony) does not form a system. By contrast, each synchronic stage is held together by a systemic equilibrium based on the interconnectedness of meaning and form. To understand why a language has the forms it has at a given stage, both the diachronic and the synchronic dimension must be considered.

  4. Synchronization (alternating current) - Wikipedia

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    The sequence of events is similar for manual or automatic synchronization. The generator is brought up to approximate synchronous speed by supplying more energy to its shaft - for example, opening the valves on a steam turbine, opening the gates on a hydraulic turbine, or increasing the fuel rack setting on a diesel engine.

  5. Sync - Wikipedia

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    Sync and synch are abbreviations of synchrony, or synchronization, the coordination of events to keep them in time. The opposite of synchrony is asynchrony . Sync or synch may also refer to:

  6. English writing style - Wikipedia

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    An English writing style is a combination of features in an English language composition that has become characteristic of a particular writer, a genre, a particular organization, or a profession more broadly (e.g., legal writing).

  7. The relevance test: The first four of the five linked items should probably not be linked ("law", "vote", "public" and "election"). If there is doubt, check the destination articles, which are far too general to assist all but readers who need an English dictionary at their side. "Public" was the stand-out useless link.

  8. Help : Introduction to the Manual of Style/Manual of Style quiz

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    This passage mixes varieties of English: "centre" is spelled using British English, but "colors" is American English. This could be resolved either by changing centre to center or by changing colors to colours.

  9. Writing style - Wikipedia

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    In literature, writing style is the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation. [1] As Bryan Ray notes, however, style is a broader concern, one that can describe "readers' relationships with, texts, the grammatical choices writers make, the importance of adhering to norms in certain contexts and deviating from them in others, the ...