Sync
/sɪŋk/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Clipping of synchronization or synchrony. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable, usually
- 2 Harmony. informal, uncountable, usually
- 3 A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films. informal, uncountable, usually
Verb
- 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 make synchronous and adjust in time or manner wordnet
- 3 To flush all pending I/O operations to disk. informal
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.