Synchronizer may refer to: * Part of a

synchromesh A manual transmission (MT), also known as manual gearbox, standard transmission (in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States), or stick shift (in the United States), is a multi-speed motor vehicle transmission system where gear changes ...

manual transmission in an automobile *

Synchronization gear A synchronization gear (also known as a gun synchronizer or interrupter gear) was a device enabling a single-engine tractor configuration aircraft to fire its forward-firing armament through the arc of its spinning Propeller (aeronautics), propel ...

, a device that permits a gun to fire between the blades of a revolving airplane propeller *

Arbiter (electronics) Arbiters are electronic devices that allocate access to shared resources. Bus arbiter There are multiple ways to perform a computer bus arbitration, with the most popular varieties being: * ''dynamic centralized parallel'' where one central arbi ...

, which orders signals in asynchronous circuit * Synchronizer, an electronic circuit technique; see

metastability in electronics In electronics, metastability is the ability of a digital electronic system to persist for an unbounded time in an unstable equilibrium or metastable state. In digital logic circuits, a digital signal is required to be within certain voltage or ...

* Synchronizer (film editing), a device for aligning multiple film strips in a replay or editing device *

Synchronizer (algorithm) In computer science, a synchronizer is an algorithm that can be used to run a synchronous algorithm on top of an asynchronous processor network, so enabling the asynchronous system The primary focus of this article is asynchronous control in di ...

, an algorithm that can be applied to a synchronous distributed algorithm to produce a version that operates in asynchronous networks

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