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
Unique bit pattern appended to and preceding information that establishes a reference point for decoding of that subsequent information
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
abbreviation for synchronization and usually refers the relationship between the sound and the picture
(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
The condition when the sound and the picture that was taken on the set line up in the manner in which the events actually occurred during the shooting
{i} synchronization; quality of being set to precisely the same time; state of acting at exactly the same speed; harmony, agreement (also synch)