Single-threaded; blocking; occurring in the same thread as other computations, thereby preventing those computations from resuming until the communication is complete.
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sun-synchronous
Origin
Borrowed from Late Latin synchronus, from Ancient Greek σύγχρονος ("contemporaneous"), from σῠν- + χρόνος.
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