an environment service that synchronizes the hosts view of memory with an I/O card's view This includes cache flushing and purging, flushing buffers in bus bridges, etc
An abbreviation for SYNChronization referring to the signals produced by the camera, and used by the monitor to accurately reproduce the viewed image onto the monitor screen
If two things are out of sync, they do not match or do not happen together as they should. If two things are in sync, they match or happen together as they should. Normally, when demand and supply are out of sync, you either increase the supply, or you adjust the price mechanism. synch sync sth⇔up to arrange for two or more things to happen at exactly the same time, or to happen at the same time or in the same way as something else = synchronize
vi To compare the databases on a Palm with those in a backup directory, and make whatever changes are necessary so that the two copies have identical contents n The process of syncing
(Synchronization) Timing pulses that are generated by a camera to identify when a field (complete TV picture) or a line (a single line of a picture) is about to start These pulses are used to lock the timing of various individual parts of a video system together to prevent 'picture roll' on monitors when switching between different inputs
Provides a way for you to synchronize the device with something else For example, LFO sync in synthesizers often allows you to clock the beginning of the LFO cycle to key-on timing Sync is used in the Roland x0x series to allow both sequencers to start at the same time with the same tempo
In a printing dialog extension, a procedure that maintains the correspondence between the current user interface settings and their recorded values in a job ticket
Abbreviation of synchronization Usually refers to the synchronization pulses necessary to coordinate the operation of several interconnected video components When the components are properly synchronized, they are said to be "in sync "
Synchronization Two devices are said to be in sync when they are locked together with respect to time, so that the events generated by each of them will always fall into predicable time relationships