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syn·chro·nize

Audio Help [sing-kruh-nahyz] Pronunciation Key verb, -nized, -niz·ing.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.

2.	to cause to go on, move, operate, work, etc., at the same rate and exactly together: They synchronized their steps and walked on together.

Movies, Television.

a.	to cause (sound and action) to match precisely: to synchronize the sound of footsteps with the actor's movements.

b.	to match the sound and action in (a scene).

4.	to cause to agree in time of occurrence; assign to the same time or period, as in a history.

5.	to adjust the periodicities of (two or more electrical or mechanical devices) so that the periods are equal or integral multiples or fractions of each other.

–verb (used without object)

6.	to occur at the same time or coincide or agree in time.

7.	to go on, move, operate, work, etc., at the same rate and exactly together; recur together.

Also, especially British, syn·chro·nise.

[Origin: 1615–25; < Gk synchronízein to be contemporary with, equiv. to sýnchron(os) synchronous + -izein -ize

]

—Related forms

syn·chro·ni·za·tion, noun

syn·chro·niz·er, noun

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syn·chro·nize Audio Help   (sĭng'krə-nīz', sĭn'-) Pronunciation Key
v.   syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es

v.   intr.

To occur at the same time; be simultaneous.
To operate in unison.

v. tr.

1. To cause to occur or operate with exact coincidence in time or rate: We synchronized our watches.
2. To cause to occur or operate at the same time as something else: They synchronized their trip with the annual tulip festival.
To arrange (historical events) in a synchronism so as to indicate parallel occurrence.
To cause (soundtrack and action) to match exactly in a film.

[Greek sunkhronizein, to be contemporary, from sunkhronos, contemporaneous; see synchronous.]

syn'chro·ni·za'tion (-nĭ-zā'shən) n., syn'chro·niz'er n.

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synchronization
noun
1.	the relation that exists when things occur at the same time; "the drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves" [syn: synchronism] [ant: asynchronism]
2.	an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison
3.	coordinating by causing to indicate the same time; "the synchronization of their watches was an important preliminary"