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Synchronized

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syn⋅chro⋅nize

  [sing-kruh-nahyz] verb, -nized, -niz⋅ing.
Use Synchronized in a Sentence
–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.
3. 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   (sĭng'krə-nīz', sĭn'-)   
v.   syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es

v.   intr.

  1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous.

  2. 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.

  2. To arrange (historical events) in a synchronism so as to indicate parallel occurrence.

  3. 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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Word Origin & History

synchronize 
c.1624, "to occur at the same time," from Gk. synchronizein "be of the same time," from synchronos "happening at the same time" (see synchronous). The sense of "make synchronous" is first recorded 1806. Synchronized swimming is recorded from 1950.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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