synchronize

To synchronize is to coordinate or time events so they happen all at the same time.

(verb)

An example of synchronize is when dancers coordinate their movements.
An example of synchronize is when you and a friend both set your watch to 12:15.

See synchronize in Webster's New World College Dictionary

to move or occur at the same time or rate; be synchronous

Origin: Gr synchronizein, to be contemporary with < synchronos, contemporary < syn-, together + chronos, time

transitive verb

to cause to agree in time or rate of speed; regulate (clocks, a flash gun and camera shutter, etc.) so as to make synchronous
to assign (events, etc.) to the same date or period; represent as or show to be coincident or simultaneous
Film to align (the picture and soundtrack)

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See synchronize in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es

verb, intransitive

verb, transitive

a. To cause to occur or operate with exact coincidence in time or rate: We synchronized our watches.
b. To cause to occur or operate at the same time as something else: They synchronized their trip with the annual tulip festival.
To arrange (historical events) in a synchronism so as to indicate parallel occurrence.
To cause (soundtrack and action) to match exactly in a film.

Origin:

Origin: Greek sunkhronizein, to be contemporary

Origin: , from sunkhronos, contemporaneous; see synchronous

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