English Online Dictionary. What means sync? What does sync mean?
English
Alternative forms
- synch
Etymology
Clipping of synchronization.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪŋk/
- Rhymes: -ɪŋk
- Homophone: sink
Noun
sync (usually uncountable, plural syncs) (informal)
- Clipping of synchronization or synchrony.
- Harmony.
- (music) A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
sync (third-person singular simple present syncs, present participle synching or syncing, simple past and past participle synched or synced)
- (informal) To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video.
- (informal, computing) To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.