[sing-kruh-nahyz] 
verb, -nized, -niz⋅ing.| 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.
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| syn·chro·nize (sĭng'krə-nīz', sĭn'-) v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v. intr.
[Greek sunkhronizein, to be contemporary, from sunkhronos, contemporaneous; see synchronous.] syn'chro·ni·za'tion (-nĭ-zā'shən) n., syn'chro·niz'er n. |