sync
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sync (usually uncountable, plural syncs) (informal)
- Clipping of synchronization or synchrony.
- Harmony.
- (music) A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.
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synchronization — see synchronization
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sync (third-person singular simple present syncs, present participle synching or syncing, simple past and past participle synched or synced)
- (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.
- (informal, computing) To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.
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synchronize — see synchronize