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sync

  • /sɪŋk/

Sounds like sink, cinque, synch, zinc · Rhymes with -ɪŋk

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Clipping of synchronization.

noun syncs · synch

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal, uncountable, usually Clipping of synchronization or synchrony.synchronization or synchrony
  2. informal, uncountable, usually Harmony.
  3. countable, 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.

verb syncs · syncing · synching · synced · synched

  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.
  2. informal To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.

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