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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
One who or that which synchronizes.
Part of a synchromesh manual transmission that allows the smooth engagement of gears.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
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noun
One who or that which synchronizes.
A device that permits an automatic weapon to fire between the blades of a revolving propeller.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: aerial warfare
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noun
One who or that which synchronizes.
A kind of arbiter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
One who or that which synchronizes.
A device for aligning multiple film strips in a replay or editing device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, communications, editing, film, journalism, literature, media, publishing, television, writing
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noun
One who or that which synchronizes.
An algorithm that can be applied to a synchronous distributed algorithm to produce a version that operates in asynchronous networks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, computing-theory, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: synchroscope, synchronoscope, synchroniser
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Broader terms: measuring instrument, measuring system, measuring device
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱómder.? Proto-Indo-European *sem-der.? Proto-Hellenic *ksún Ancient Greek σύν (sún) Ancient Greek σῠν- (sŭn-) Ancient Greek συγ- (sug-) Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos) Ancient Greek σῠ́γχρονος (sŭ́nkhronos) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Ancient Greek συγχρονίζω (sunkhronízō)der. English synchronize Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English synchronizer From synchronize + -er.
