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noun (used esp. in the phrases in sync and out of sync)

synchronization: The picture and the soundtrack were out of sync.

harmony or harmonious relationship: Management wants to be in sync with the client's wishes.

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verb (used without object), verb (used with object)

to synchronize; harmonize.

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Also, synch

[singk] .

Origin:
1930–35; shortened form

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Example Sentences

If you add appointments or phone numbers to the iPhone, they are added to your computer the next time you sync.

One can create a new note, add a picture, or edit a current note which will then sync with your home computer.

Euro-area countries seem to be out of sync with each other.

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If you add appointments or phone numbers to the iPhone, they are added to your computer the next time you sync.

One can create a new note, add a picture, or edit a current note which will then sync with your home computer.

Euro-area countries seem to be out of sync with each other.

Species that depend on one another may become out of sync.

For a crystal to turn to liquid, it seems that a type of swarm intelligence causes atoms to move all at once and in sync.

It would even sync to a web page so you could access, search and make notes from any browser.

To sync manually, pull down on the article list from any news section in the app.

Many of these programs can also sync to your smartphone, helping your productivity when you are away from the office.

Bonds may move in sync with equities at some parts of the economic cycle but not at others.

All the paddlers in a boat should try to work in sync.

It's therefore a way of keeping speaker and listener in sync.

My first thought was that he didn't have his software up to date, something that cut sync times in half for me.

To be sure, domestic and overseas equities are more in sync with each other than they have ever been.

It will then begin to sync your mail and will inform you of how much the process has accomplished.

Heading east, the day shortens and the lengthened rhythm then has a much tougher time trying to get back in sync.

Interesting but it doesn't sync up with observed facts of mental and personality mutability.

Speakers automatically sync with base unit out of box.

She felt so out of sync with others in her lab that she had started to doubt her abilities.

Their belief systems will come into sync the company they keep, or else their social standing would fall".

As temperatures rise sooner in spring, interdependent species in many ecosystems are shifting dangerously out of sync.

Spongecell even provides instructions on how to sync your calendar with your iPod.

As you can see, a lot of information falls out during that sync.

It's military power was matched/in sync with its economic power.

With daylight savings time, the shops opened an hour earlier and were more in sync with what the farmers wanted.

According to my friend's account, the two earpieces talk to each other wirelessly, allowing them to sync.

Whenever the two versions are on the same wireless network, they will automatically sync.

States going boom and bust, then and now, in sync with economic cycles.

Then you can go with them to a soccer match and chant in sync if you want, but that's not the point.

It's better to sync your phone and computer daily, but let's be honest.

Figure out a plan to get those students access, so that they can sync to iTunes regularly.

In addition, governments have gotten sick too and need to balance their budgets out of sync with the economic cycle.

But as the weather changes, they will be increasingly out of sync with their environment.

The setup mirrors that of an iPod with tabs along the top for all your different sync elements.

And perhaps the popularity of movies is the fact that they are more in sync with the way a human perceives the world.

If you skip straight to the sync screen, you get no such prompt.

Sync the light to the phases of the real moon outside, or cycle through all of the phases at once.

Fungus spores explode in sync to attain higher heights.

It's a little out of sync with those of us that expect to have several jobs throughout our lives.

Political views and management style in sync with administration a plus.

Our sync system also ensures that our data about what books are available to lend is as accurate as possible.

But the friendly town is perfectly in sync with the region's outdoor-centric values.

Public pension actuaries use old methods that have fallen far out of sync with the economic mainstream.

Your mind has to be there, too, in sync with what you are seeing.

The main sync screen for email, contacts and calendars.

Now, it's a nearly full-fledged restaurant in near-perfect sync with the times.

Attach a sync cord between the strobe and the camera.

If you do manage to sync the band to your phone, you see a graph of your health activity, represented by colorful bars.

For some, there's the additional challenge of keeping a home machine and a work machine in sync with each other.

Jet lag happens when the body's inner clock falls out of sync with daily cycles of light, meals, and rest.

In the control room, lights brightened and dimmed in sync with the rise and fall of day.

Line up the three major welfare-reform plans and they appear, at first, nearly in sync.

Apple's file transfer protocol requires all of the music on an iPod tobe erased before it can sync music from new computer.

Jobs discussing iCloud, which will automatically sync photos, videos and music without the need of a.

That's one reason an orchestra needs a conductor to keep players in sync.

Only the diamond necklace seemed slightly out of sync.

The bump-up in speed can clearly be seen when you sync an iPod, though.

But the level of aid is increasingly out of sync with the level of need.

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World English Dictionary

sync or films, television, computing synch (sɪŋk)

—vb
1.	an informal word for synchronize

—n
2.	See synchronize an informal word for synchronization: in sync; out of sync

synch or films, television, computing synch

—vb

—n

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Word Origin & History

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.

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Computing Dictionary

sync definition

/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.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-11)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

sync

synchronized
synchronization

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