MEANING
1. To make events, signals, or processes occur according to matching timing.
2. To bring copies of data or records into agreement by updating them.
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Words that belong together
- synchronize clocks
- synchronize operations
On the page
They synchronized their clocks before leaving the airlock.
The controller synchronized the two rotating platforms.
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Word forms
- Base
- synchronize
- Past tense
- synchronized
- Past participle
- synchronized
- Present participle
- synchronizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- synchronize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are synchronizing
- Present perfect
- have/has synchronized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been synchronizing
- Past
- synchronized
- Past continuous
- was/were synchronizing
- Past perfect
- had synchronized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been synchronizing
- Future
- will synchronize
- Future continuous
- will be synchronizing
- Future perfect
- will have synchronized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been synchronizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: synchronize; synchronizes; synchronized; synchronized; synchronizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: synchronizes.
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