noun
- Harmony.
- A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.
verb
- To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video.
- To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.
noun
- The state or property of being synchronized.
- The arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time.
- In an intelligence context, application of intelligence sources and methods in concert with the operation plan.
Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity
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Sync is a 3-meaning word in English. Shorter words have fewer anagrams.
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