Sync

4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sync
       v : make synchronous and adjust in time or manner; "Let's
           synchronize our efforts" [syn: {synchronize}, {synchronise}]
           [ant: {desynchronize}, {desynchronize}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "sync":
     accommodate, accord, accordance, adapt, adjust, adjust to,
     affinity, agreement, assent, assimilate, attune, chorus, coherence,
     coincidence, compatibility, concert, concord, concordance,
     conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence,
     congruency, congruity, consistency, consonance, consort,
     cooperation, coordinate, correspondence, cut to, equalize,
     equivalence, fit, fix, gear to, harmonize, harmony, homologate,
     homologize, intersection, key to, make plumb, make uniform,
     measure, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace, proportion,
     put in tune, rapport, reconcile, rectify, regulate, right,
     self-consistency, set, set right, similarize, symmetry,
     synchronism, synchronize, tailor, tally, timing, trim to, true,
     true up, tune, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  sync /sink/ n., vi. (var. `synch') 1. To synchronize, to bring into
     synchronization. 2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk;
     see {flush}, sense 2. 3. More generally, to force a number of competing
     processes or agents to a state that would be `safe' if the system were
     to crash; thus, to checkpoint (in the database-theory sense).
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  sync
       
          /sink/ (Or "synch") 1. To synchronise, to bring into
          synchronisation.
       
          2.  To force ("{flush}") all pending buffered
          disk writes to the disk.
       
          3. More generally, to force a number of competing processes or
          agents to a state that would be "safe" if the system were to
          crash, i.e. to {checkpoint} in the {database} sense.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-11-11)