desynchronization
The two clocks show desynchronization as one reads 3:00 and the other reads 3:15.
Noun 1. The condition or process of occurring at different times or at an unrelated pace: Desynchronization refers to a state where two or more events, processes, or rhythms do not happen simultaneously or in a coordinated manner. It describes a lack of synchronization or timing alignment.
Desynchronization is used to describe a mismatch in timing, cycles, or coordination between systems, events, or biological rhythms. * The desynchronization between the audio and video made the movie unwatchable. * Jet lag is caused by the desynchronization of your internal body clock from the local day-night cycle. * The study examined the desynchronization of brain waves during sleep.
- Technical/Scientific Context: Commonly used in fields like neuroscience, computing, and medicine to describe the loss of sync between signals, clocks, or biological oscillators.
- The experiment induced a desynchronization of neuronal firing patterns.
- Figurative Use: Can describe a lack of coordination or alignment in plans, efforts, or social activities.
- There was a noticeable desynchronization between the marketing launch and the product's availability.
- Desynchronize (verb): To cause to occur at different times; to put out of synchronization.
- The software bug could desynchronize the database records.
- Desynchronizing (adjective/gerund): Causing or relating to desynchronization.
- a desynchronizing effect
- Desynchronisation (noun): British English spelling of desynchronization.
- Asynchrony (noun): A similar concept meaning a lack of temporal correspondence, often used interchangeably in some contexts.
- Asynchrony
- Lack of synchronization
- Misalignment
- Timing mismatch
- Dissociation (in specific contexts, e.g., psychological or physiological)
- Synchronization
- Synchrony
- Alignment
- Coordination
- Simultaneity
The two clocks show desynchronization as one reads 3:00 and the other reads 3:15.
- the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times
- the stimulus produced a desynchronizing of the brain waves