synchronize
About 0.63 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To cause two or more events or actions to happen at exactly the same time or same rate, or in a time-coordinated way.
- verb To occur at the same time or with coordinated timing.
- verb To cause (video and audio) to play in a coordinated way.
- verb To set (a clock or watch) to display the same time as another.
We synchronized our watches and agreed to meet at four o'clock precisely.
- verb 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.
- verb To agree, be coordinated with, or complement well.
- verb To coordinate or combine.
Similar words
sync contemporize synchronization synchronicity synchrony coincide coordinate synch update timing
Often followed by
the with their your and a all to its
Word family
synchronized synchronizer synchronizers synchronizes synchronizing
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