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` (sĭng(cid:0)krə-nīzʹ′, sĭn(cid:0)-)
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`v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es
`v.tr.
`1.
`a. To cause to occur or operate with exact coincidence in time or rate: The military units synchronized their operations. We synchronized our watches.
`b. To cause to occur or operate at the same time as something else: They synchronized their trip with the annual tulip festival.
`2. To represent (events) as occurring at the same time or in the same time period.
`3. To arrange (a video or soundtrack, for example) to play or operate in synchronization with something else.
`4.
`a. To transfer data between (two devices) to ensure that the same data is stored on both.
`b. To execute such a transfer to cause the content of (two or more files or other sets of data) to be identical.
`v.intr.
`1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous: The light flashes of fireflies tend to synchronize with one another.
`2. To operate in unison.
`[Greek sunkhronizein, to be contemporary, from sunkhronos, contemporaneous; see SYNCHRONOUS.]
`synʹ′ʹ′chro·ni·za(cid:0)tion (-nĭ-zā(cid:0)shən) n.
`syn(cid:0)chro·nizʹ′ʹ′er n.
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`adj.
`1. Occurring or existing at the same time. See Synonyms at contemporary.
`2. Moving or operating at the same rate: synchronous motors.
`3.
`a. Having identical periods.
`b. Having identical period and phase: synchronous oscillations.
`c. Relating to or being a satellite that orbits a celestial body at a speed that matches the body's rotation, thus remaining stationary as observed from the body's surface.
`d. Synchronized by an electronic clock: synchronous signaling.
`[From Late Latin synchronus, from Greek sunkhronos : sun-, syn- + khronos, time.]
`syn(cid:0)chro·nous·ly adv.
`syn(cid:0)chro·nous·ness n.
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