synchronous communication

collocation in English

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synchronous
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪŋ.krə.nəs/us
/ˈsɪŋ.krə.nəs/
formal
happening or done at the same time ...
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communication
noun
uk
/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/kəˌmjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the act of communicating ...
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This study reports how meaning is negotiated insynchronouscommunicationby investigating the effects of different task types on interaction.
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This article examines the possibilities that chat offers to foreign language learners, but because it issynchronouscommunicationthere are some practical organisational problems.
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Moreover, it gives a branching semantics, which opens the way to combining the asynchronous dataflow communication primitives withsynchronouscommunicationprimitives.
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Supporting oral production for professional purposes insynchronouscommunicationwith heterogenous learners.
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Initially, one of the objectives of this research was to introduce new technologies to supportsynchronouscommunicationto enhance the distributed design process.
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Now let us represent the computation that expresses asynchronouscommunicationbetween such a sender and such a receiver.
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Opening a channel is a separate step from sending a message, like the handshaking before face-to-face conversations, or that ofsynchronouscommunication.
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For this reasonsynchronouscommunicationpermits more information to be passed over a circuit per unit time than asynchronous serial communication.
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The "communication matrix" establishes a protocol forsynchronouscommunication.
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Depending on the computational model, time is measured, e.g., insynchronouscommunicationrounds or in asynchronous cycles.
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Standard routines forsynchronouscommunicationsuch as send and receive were available as well as asynchronous system calls.
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The ability to havesynchronouscommunicationarrived with the development of online social networks.
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Similar functionalities can be defined for broadcast communication, orsynchronouscommunication.
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In such systems, a central complexity measure is the number ofsynchronouscommunicationrounds required to complete the task.
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In the past, postal services made communication possible without the necessity of physical presence, and the invention of the telephone allowedsynchronouscommunicationbetween people across long distances.
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For example, instant messaging has a higher degree of immediacy of feedback than email because instant messaging tends to result in much moresynchronouscommunicationthan email.
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