synchronised
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Definition
Adjective: 1. Occurring or operating at the same time and rate; coordinated in time. This describes actions, movements, or processes that are made to happen together in perfect unison or according to a shared timing. * The swimmers performed a perfectly synchronised routine. * The traffic lights are synchronised to improve the flow of cars.
Usage
The adjective "synchronised" describes a state where two or more things are coordinated to act in unison. It is commonly used in technical, scientific, and performance contexts. * It is often used with nouns like movement, action, effort, clocks, data, swimming, dancing. * The spelling synchronized is the standard form in American English.
Examples
- The dancers' movements were perfectly synchronised with the music.
- For the experiment to work, the two computers must be synchronised.
- They made a synchronised jump into the pool.
Advanced Usage
- Synchronised swimming (noun): A sport in which swimmers perform coordinated movements in time to music.
- She won a gold medal in synchronised swimming at the Olympics.
- To be synchronised with something: To be coordinated or aligned in time with something else.
- Your watch should be synchronised with the official time server.
Variants and Related Words
- Synchronize (verb): To cause to occur or operate at the same time or rate.
- Please synchronize your watches.
- Synchronization (noun): The process of synchronizing or the state of being synchronized.
- The synchronization of the data took several minutes.
- Synchronicity (noun): The simultaneous occurrence of events that appear meaningfully related but have no discernible causal connection.
- He was amazed by the synchronicity of thinking of a friend just as they called.
Synonyms
- Coordinated
- Simultaneous
- Concurrent
- In unison
- In sync (informal)
Antonyms
- Desynchronised
- Uncoordinated
- Asynchronous
- Out of sync
Adjective
- operating in unison
- the synchronized flapping of a bird's wings