syncn.v.

1929 Photoplay Apr. 31/2 In sink, in synchronism; picture and sound perfectly timed together.

1939 Reader's Digest Mar. 41/1 When your [television] set is out of synchronization the image sort of bobs and weaves; it is then ‘out of sync’.

1943 Gloss. Terms Telecomm. (B.S.I.) 77 Synchronising signal (Sync pulse), a signal sent out periodically by the transmitter in order to keep the receiving system in synchronism.

1954 Proc. IRE 42 106/2 With a strong (clean) sync signal, the color~carrier reference signal may be maintained as closely accurate as desired, independent of other factors.

1954 Proc. IRE 42 116/1 The composite system functions as a form of automatic frequency control system when out of sync and as an automatic phase control system when in sync.

1960 How TV Works 16/1 A ‘line sync’ is..the jargon for the timing signal which is given at the end of each separate line of a television picture.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio xii. 219 Mixing the output of two gramophone records or tapes playing almost in sync.

1965 Wireless World Aug. 389/1 The conditions for direct sync can now be examined.

1966 Listener 4 Aug. 160/1 The introduction of new lightweight sync-sound equipment.

1972 M. Muggeridge Green Stick ii. 69 The sync frequently went awry, with the words of the song and the movements of the singers lips not tallying.

1973 C. Bonington Everest xv. 238 Graham and I played with the little synch-sound super 8 mm. cine camera, trying to make a documentary of what life was like at Camp 4.

1977 Rolling Stone 5 May 31/1 It was Mercury who would blow a fuse if the lights were out of sync or the PA system malfunctioned.

1978 SLR Camera Aug. 88/2 For electronic flash the camera is in sync at all speeds from 1/25th sec downwards and with expendable flash bulbs, at all speeds from 1/30th down.

1979 Mod. Photogr. Dec. 192/1 Connect an electronic flash to the camera with the proper sync terminal.

1961 J. Steinbeck Winter of our Discontent ii. xiv. 278 Something's going on... I just feel it... Everybody's a little out of synch.

1966 E. West Night is Time for Listening vi. 200 No cops, no State Department. Are we in sync?

1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Nov. 1247/4 Worldly success depends on being, as it were, in sync with the contemporary scene, and it was at this point that Fleming began to get out of sync, never to get properly in again.

1977 Time 17 Oct. 42/3 The next thing will be to bring the players' uniforms into sync with the floor design.

1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xvii. 352 His watch..was several hours out of sync with the United States; he had last set it in Vienna.

1978 Eng. Jrnl. Dec. 50/1 Or is the teaching ‘out of synch’ with the cognitive development..and the intentions of the learner?

1982 M. Millar Mermaid x. 110 She..sensed his uneasiness, his awareness that he was out of sync, out of tune.