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syn⋅chro⋅nize

[sing-kruh-nahyz] 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.
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


syn⋅chro⋅ni⋅za⋅tion, noun
syn⋅chro⋅niz⋅er, noun
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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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