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sync: /sink/, vi. (var.: synch) 1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization. 2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk; see
flush, sense 2. 3. 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).
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