noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Clipping of synchronization or synchrony. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable, usually
2. 2
   Harmony. informal, uncountable, usually
3. 3
   A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films. informal, uncountable, usually

Verb

1. 1
   To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video. informal

   "Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices."

2. 2
   make synchronous and adjust in time or manner wordnet
3. 3
   To flush all pending I/O operations to disk. informal

Synonyms

All synonyms

synchronizeaccommodateaccordaccordanceadaptadjust

Example

More examples

"On Jul 18th Mark/Space released an updated version of Missing Sync for Windows Mobile for the Mac OS X."

Etymology

Clipping of synchronization.

Related phrases

V-synccomposite syncin synclip synclip-syncoff syncon syncout of syncsync on greensync upi oin sync

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