Synchronize

Quick meaning: Synchronize is a verb meaning (transitive) To cause two or more events or actions to happen at exactly the same time or same rate, or in a time-coordinated way.

Meaning

(transitive) To cause two or more events or actions to happen at exactly the same time or same rate, or in a time-coordinated way.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To set (a clock or watch) to display the same time as another.
2. (intransitive, of inanimate entities) To agree, be coordinated with, or complement well.
3. (transitive) To coordinate or combine.
4. (computing, ambitransitive) To cause (a set of files, data, or settings) on one computer or device to be (and try to remain) the same as on another.

Example Sentences

We synchronized our watches and agreed to meet at four o'clock precisely.

Gay men often have interests and concerns that don't synchronize with the issues considered top priorities by lesbians.

Word Forms

• synchronizes
• synchronizing
• synchronized
• synchronise

Synonyms for synchronize

Depending on context, synonyms include sync, contemporize.

Antonyms for synchronize

Common opposites include desynchronize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sync, contemporize, synchronization, synchronicity, synchrony, coincide.

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