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comparative more synchronous, superlative most synchronous
At the same time, at the same frequency. examples
(computing, of communication) Single-threaded; blocking; occurring in the same thread as other computations, thereby preventing those computations from resuming until the communication is complete. quotations examples
Post is a “fire and forget” where the UI thread work is performed asynchronously; Send is synchronous in that the call blocks until the UI thread work has been performed.
2014, Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer, Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, page 25