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sync

[singk] Informal.
–noun (used esp. in the phrases in sync and out of sync)
1. Also, synch [singk] , synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.
2. harmony or harmonious relationship: Management wants to be in sync with the client's wishes.
–verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
3. to synchronize; harmonize.

Origin:
1930–35; shortened form
sync or synch   (sĭngk)   
n.  
  1. Synchronization: "an effect like that of stereo speakers slightly out of sync" (Time).
  2. Harmony; accord: in sync with today's fashions.
intr. & tr.v.   synced or synched, sync·ing or synch·ing, syncs or synchs
To synchronize.

sync

/sink/ n., vi. (var. `synch')
1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization.
2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk; see flush, sense
2.
3. More generally, to force a number of competing processes or agents to a state that would be `safe' if the system were to crash; thus, to checkpoint (in the database-theory sense).

sync 
1929, shortened form of synchronization (see synchronize). Originally in ref. to soundtracks and pictures in the movies. Sense of "be in agreement, coincide" first recorded 1961 in in sync.

sync
/sink/ (Or "synch") 1. To synchronise, to bring into synchronisation.
2. To force ("flush") all pending buffered disk writes to the disk.
3. More generally, to force a number of competing processes or agents to a state that would be "safe" if the system were to crash, i.e. to checkpoint in the database sense.
[The Jargon File]
(1994-11-11)

sync
  1. synchronized
  2. synchronization
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