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Sync
  • /sink/ n. , vi. (var. `synch') To synchronize, to bring into synchronization.
  • [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk; see flush, sense 2.
  • More generally, to force a number of competing processes or agents to a state that would be `safe' if the system were to crash; thus, to checkpoint (in the database-theory sense).