Words That Start With: SYN

• The fusion of two gametes to form a zygote.

• To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video.

• To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.

• a system consisting of a generator and a motor so connected that the motor will assume the same relative position as the generator; the generator and the motor are synchronized

• two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context

• a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain

• (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')

• the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects

• fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple

• Harmony.

• A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.

• The state or property of being synchronized.

• The arrangement of military actions in time, space, and purpose to produce maximum relative combat power at a decisive place and time.

• In an intelligence context, application of intelligence sources and methods in concert with the operation plan.