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sync

noun, verb — 5 senses

sync

noun

/sɪŋk/

Etymology Clipping of synchronization.

1

Abbreviation, Clipping, Informal, Usually Clipping of synchronization or synchrony.

2

Informal, Usually Harmony.

3

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Informal, Usually A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.

  • The 2008 animation Waltz With Bashir was the first in a series of screen commissions and syncs that has made him a fixture of pop culture, marrying his exquisite melancholy to the saccharine and spectacular.2024 September 4, Jazz Monroe, “Max Richter on the Music That Made Him”, in Pitchfork:
Derived terms
composite sync, in sync, lip sync, lip-sync, multisync, off sync, on sync, out of sync, sync on green, syncword, V-sync

sync

verb

Etymology Clipping of synchronization.

1

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

  • Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices.
  • He synced his phone to the laptop to transfer data about the field trip.
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Informal To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.

Derived terms
sync up

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