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synchronization
subject			fact

synchronization	has definition A mechanism to guarantee that only one thread can access an object at a time
	has purpose to avoid problems that can arise when two threads can both modify the same object at the same time
	is a subtopic of The Basics of Java
	is a kind of mechanism
	is a kind of practice