Serialization, in computer science, is the process of saving an object so that it can be re-created. Serialization is also another, perhaps more correct name for thread or process synchronization. Serialization or serialisation may also refer to: Serial (literature), told in contiguous installments in sequential issues of a single periodical publication Serializability, in databases and transaction processing Seriality, a term used in political science, gender studies, and existentialism Serial verb construction, a feature of the grammar of some languages See also Serial (disambiguation)