sync

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of synchronization.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪŋk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk
  • Homophone: sink

Noun

sync (usually uncountable, plural syncs)

  1. (informal) Clipping of synchronization.
  2. (informal) Harmony.
  3. (informal, music) A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.

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Verb

sync (third-person singular simple present syncs, present participle synching or syncing, simple past and past participle synched or synced)

  1. (informal) To synchronize.
  2. (informal, computing) To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.

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See also

  • in sync
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