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sync

Pronunciation: /sɪŋk/

The English word “sync” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Harmony.
  2. A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.

verb

  1. To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video.
  2. To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.

Etymology

Clipping of synchronization.

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